1) Arched wall area 2) Architectural crescent 3) Area enframed by an arch 4) Architectural word 5) Architecture word 6) Architecture term 7) Architectural term 8) Canadian mountain 9) Crescent moon 10) Crescent-shaped object 11) Crescent-shaped opening 12) Crescent-shaped window 13) First quarter appearance
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1) Fenestella
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- temporary fortification like a detached bastion
- oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
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a half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void
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In architecture, a lunette (French lunette, `little moon`) is a half-moon shaped space, either filled with recessed masonry or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs. If a door is set within a round-headed arch, the space within the arch above the door.....
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[fortification] In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion standing by itself without curtains on either side. The gorge was generally open. One notable historical example of a lunette was the one used at the Battle of the Alamo ...
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[stele] The main body of the stele is then presented below, often separated with a horizontal line (register), but not always. In Egyptian steles, many have horizontal lines of hieroglyphs; often the lunette will contain shorter vertical statements in hieroglyphs, sometimes just names of the individuals portrayed, hieroglyphs in front, or b...
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crescent-shaped space where a vault meets a wall
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• (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. • (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge. • (n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse. • (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion. • (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more t...
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Derived from the French word lune (moon), applied to a semicircular decoration either carved or inlaid on furniture or incorporated into a textile design.
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arching aperture in a wall or concave ceiling. It may be crescent-shaped or semicircular. The word is the French diminutive of lune, `moon.` Lunettes ... [2 related articles]
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1. A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion. ... 2. <veterinary> A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge. ... 3. A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles. ... 4. A piece of felt to cover the ey...
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Semi-circular space decorated with frescoes or mosaics usually situated above doors or windows where the vault joins the walls. Also used to describe a semicircular section above a painting or bas-relief.
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A crescent-shaped or semicircular area or opening on a wall surface.
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Semicircular window or wall panel
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Triangular (originally crescent-shaped) defensive structure, open at the rear, often flanking a ravelin
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Derived from the French word lune (moon), applied to a semicircular decoration either carved or inlaid on furniture or incorporated into a textile design. See decorative motifs.
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Lu·nette' noun [ French, dim. of
lune moon, Latin
luna . See
Lune a crescent.]
1. (Fort.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See
Bastion .
2. (Far.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge....
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In fortifications, a lunette is a detached out-work having two faces and two flanks. It was often used in field fortifications, or before the glacis of a permanent fortress to protect a weak point.
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In architecture a lunette is a surface of semicircular or segmental form; the term is especially applied to the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
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A semicircular panel, often above a door or window, usually having some sort of decoration. M
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n] - temporary fortification like a detached bastion 2. [n] - oval or circular opening
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lunette 1. Any of various figures or objects shaped like a half-moon or a crescent. 2. A crescentiform or semicircular space in a ceiling, dome, etc., decorated with paintings or sculptures; a piece of decoration filling such a space. 3. In the guillotine, the circular hole which receives the neck of the victim.
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fenestella noun oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
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any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section. · (in the plane of a wall) an area enframed by an arch or vault. · a painting, sculpture, or window filling such an area. · a work consisting of a salient angle with two flanks and an open gorge. · a towing ring in the trail plate of a towed ...
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