lunette

Definition

A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French lunette, diminutive of lune (“moon”).

Example Sentences

• "Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime."
• "Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak."
• "The decoration of a lunette discovered in the Duomo of Pistoia in the 1950s, which represents Christ blessing and Saints James and John, all bust-length, constitutes a more remarkable and stylistically more advanced approach to painting."

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