单词 | lucarne |
释义 | lucarnen. An opening made in a roof to let in the light; a skylight, a dormer or garret window. (Now only as French.) Also lucarne window.In quot. 1793 the word appears to be misused. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > skylights, etc. lucarne1548 shop light1602 skylight?c1660 bullock's-eye1728 lunette1742 roof light1763 light well1826 abat-jour1838 light shaft1870 dead-light1882 laylight1932 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxxvii Great towers embattailed and vauted with lopes Lucanes like Masonry. 1554 Acc. Rolls Durham Castle 3 Nov. in J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. For ij dayes & dim. in mendyng of the gret Lucayne, in the gallere and lying of fyletts. 1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 523 Hanged by the necke, out of a great Lucane window into the street. 1631 W. Cornwallis Ess. (ed. 2) ii. xlviii. sig. Mm4v Many entries, landing places, and Lucomes. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 124 A dozen casements above, and two wide luke-homes below. 1793 R. Burns Let. 20 Feb. (2003) II. 184 I look up to thee, as doth a toad through the iron-barred lucarne of a pestiferous dungeon to the cloudless glory of a summer sun! 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 212 Lewcome, a window projecting in the roof, generally a ‘Lewcome window’, but the word is applied to the gable end of a house. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Lucam. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xi. 187 The lucarne windows from which she saw the reek of the burning camp. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 41 That grey roof, with the range of lucarnes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1548 |
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