rose window

Example Sentences

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For years, nobody has been allowed to peek behind the ornate stone walls and intricate rose window of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Albury.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025

An untitled 2006 work by Scottish artist Richard Wright is a secular re-imagining of an ecclesiastical rose window.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

The fugitives entered and left the attic through a rose window, usually under the cover of darkness.

From Reuters • May 4, 2022

The glass interrupted the tower’s pulled-taffy proportions, and spoiled what was even more distinctive than the broken pediment: the supersized Italianate portico, facing Madison Avenue, with its semicircular arches and big, quasi-ecclesiastical rose window.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2018

The masons put together the pieces of the rose window and installed the tympanums and voussoirs over the doors.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay