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casement

[keys-muhnt] / ˈkeɪs mənt /




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Just imagine a Tudor without its steel casement windows or a Craftsman without its solid built-in bookcases.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023

"When it struck the quarters, the whole room shook and then the joy of somebody coming in, opening the casement, putting the rod in and winding it up," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2022

Past a covered front porch, the two-story home opens to wood-covered spaces with stained glass, pocketing doors, casement windows and built-ins.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2020

“Lyra barged open the door, dragged her rickety chair to the window, flung wide the casement, and scrambled out,” he wrote in the first volume of his epic trilogy, “His Dark Materials.”

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2017

Her moth was perched in a shadowed corner of the window casement, and she waited there a long time after he fell still, trying to determine when he had truly crossed over.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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