Definition of French window

1. Noun. A French door situated in an exterior wall of a building.

Generic synonyms: French Door

Definition of French window

1. Noun. an outside door with glass panes, serving as a window and a door ¹

2. Noun. (alternative spelling of French window) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of French Window

French rye
French scale
French sorrel
French spinach
French stick
French sticks
French teacher
French telephone
French ticklers
French toast
French ultramarine
French ultramarine blue
French vermouth
French weed
French window
French windows
French wire
French wires
Frenchcore
Frenched
Frenches
Frenchie
Frenchies
Frenchification
Frenchifications
Frenchified
Frenchifies
Frenchify
Frenchifying

Literary usage of French window

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"DOUBLE-SASH CASEMENT OR FRENCH-WINDOW HARDWARE. These windows usually have the meeting- stiles rebated, so that when the swing-leaf is secured it will also ..."

2. The Country House: A Practical Manual of the Planning and Construction of by Charles Edward Hooper (1905)
"16 shows an arrangement of a three-opening mullioned window in a brick wall, in which the central one is a french window opening on a piazza and the side ..."

3. Old Country Inns of England by Henry Parr Maskell, Edward W. Gregory (1911)
"... is now a comfortable private residence, and the old gateway arch would hardly be recognized in the french window opening on the front garden. ..."

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