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Fanlight

noun

A window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door. Synonyms: transom, transom window.

A window in a roof to admit daylight. Synonym: skylight.

A semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan.

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"Fanlight" Quotes from Famous Books

... door like that!' None of your wretched browns and greens and blacks and reds for our door, Rosalie! We'll have a yellow front door, gamboge. I've seen it on a house in Westminster. I'll take you there. You wait till you see it. Imagine it, Rosalie, beneath that lovely old fanlight overhead. And then yellow window boxes tinted to match in every window and crammed with flowers. It'll be a house you'll run to get into directly you catch sight of it. Then inside here, in the hall, there'll ...

— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... close to the lower end of Strand-on-the-Green. It was more than a century old, and was larger than it looked from the outside. It had the staid and comfortable stamp of the Georgian period, with its big square windows, and the unique fanlight over the door. Directly opposite the entrance, across the strip of paved quay, was a sort of a water-gate leading down to the sedgy shore of the Thames—a flight of stone steps, cut out of the masonry, from the foot of which it was possible to take boat at high tide. In the ...

— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon

... feelings, and quietly remarked that I thought it was POSSIBLE for a city clerk to be a GENTLEMAN. He replied he was very glad to hear it, and wanted to know whether I had ever come across one, for HE hadn't. He left the house, slamming the door after him, which nearly broke the fanlight; and I heard him fall over the scraper, which made me feel glad I hadn't removed it. When he had gone, I thought of a splendid answer I ought to have given him. However, I will keep it for ...

— The Diary of a Nobody • George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith

Words linked to "Fanlight" : skylight, transom, transom window, window