windowlessadj.
/ˈwɪndə(ʊ)ləs/, U.S. /ˈwɪndoʊləs/ Having no windows; (also) lacking a windowpane.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [adjective] > window > having windows > not
windowless?c1450
unwindowed1820
?c1450 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Sion Coll. London) (1907) l. 771 (MED) In prisoun þai hym kast, Þat wyndowles was and dore bot ane.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 251 Naked walls and windowless rooms.
1836 J. Sterling Let. 26 Oct. in T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling (1851) ii. iv. 181 One would think he had spent his whole life in the Younger Pliny's windowless study.
1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain xvi. 224 The moon..threw great..patches of light through the high windowless openings in the walls.
1977 J. McPhee Coming into Country (1991) iii. 404 The chairs are side by side..against a windowless wall.
2013 New Yorker 5 Aug. 41/1 We were in his office, a windowless room decorated with Snoopy memorabilia.
Derivatives
ˈwindowlessness n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > window > state of having no
windowlessness1890
1890 Liverpool Mercury 10 Apr. 5/6 One of them [sc. the houses] is dilapidated to the extent of windowlessness.
1955 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 14 211 The..columns of the left panel suggest a pagan temple, a type of edifice where windowlessness is intrinsic to the function of the building.
2003 N. Rush Mortals x. 89 The room was oppressive, its windowlessness especially.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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