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bow window

[boh] / boʊ /


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Several original features of the Avondale remain: the chestnut columns and wainscoting, the bow window with a window seat in the dining room and the H-shaped fireplace surround with its two-level mantel.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

A prosperous Winthrop Wadsworth would add an ornamented bow window, floor-to-ceiling windows and a wraparound porch and balustrade.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2019

Original tracery patterns made of thin strips of molding decorate the ceilings, with lattice in the living room and a chevron pattern in the dining room, which has a bow window.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2017

On the first day of digging the team found that a redbrick flower bed, dug up regularly to fertilise the roses, covered a rectangle of stone which Halliwell-Phillips believed was Shakespeare's bow window.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010

Sitting in its bow window were RAF Maidsend’s gaunt and weary squadron leader and a bespectacled well-turned-out civilian in a tweed suit.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein