rose window
Example Sentences
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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
Capture rare glimpses of the National Cathedral main floor after its chairs have been removed and of the recently cleaned west rose window and nave ceiling.
From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2015
At that moment the rising sun’s rays reach the rose window above the altar, bathing the sanctuary in blue, red, and gold light.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
