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Definition of Rose window
1. Noun. Circular window filled with tracery.
Definition of Rose window
1. Noun. A generic term applied to a circular window, but especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rose Window
Literary usage of Rose window
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The rose window is one of the most beautiful and characteristic features of medieval
... In England the use of the rose window was usually confined to the ..."
2. Medieval Art: From the Peace of the Church to the Eve of the Renaissance by William Richard Lethaby (1904)
"... window like the north window of Amiens. Perfected windows, with the tracery
filling the arched FIG. 80. From the rose window in the north transept of ..."
3. A Text-book of the History of Architecture by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1902)
"113,—rose window, CHURCH OP ST. OUEN, ROUEN. The exterior was even more radically
transformed by these changes, and by the addition of towers ..."
4. Fleurs-de-lys: A Book of French Poetry Freely Tr. Into English Verse by Wilfrid Charles Thorley (1920)
"THE rose window THIS window hath seen many a dame and lord In robes of azure,
pearl and gold that shone Bend low beneath the priestly benison Their hoods ..."
5. Fleurs-de-lys: A Book of French Poetry Freely Tr. Into English Verse by Wilfrid Charles Thorley (1920)
"THE rose window THIS window hath seen many a dame and lord In robes of azure,
pearl and gold that shone Bend low beneath the priestly benison Their hoods ..."
6. Days Near Rome by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1875)
"Near it, in a square, is £ Sil- vestro, with a splendid rose-window. Inside its
west door are two frescoes by some very good early Umbrian master, ..."
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