lunette
Example Sentences
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Entering beneath the lunette or peacock window, the oldest part of the historical structure, visitors find themselves in the sheltering canopy of the Palm House beneath the Conservatory’s central glass dome.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2022
Mrs. Trump, who spent years as a high-fashion model, looks both dignified and beautiful, standing before one of the arch-topped lunette windows located in the private residence of the White House.
From Washington Times • Apr. 3, 2017
The gray-and-white marble bathroom features the lunette window and a sloping ceiling.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2017
A lunette window near the ceiling splashed the canvas with light at an angle similar to that of the implicit light source in Caravaggio’s composition.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2016
The Apples of the Hesperides, and the rest of the mythological decorations in continuation of Pontormo's lunette, are also Allori's.
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
Vocabulary lists containing lunette
Power Suffix: -ette
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