Monday, February 27, 2017

Word of the day: bow window

The word of the day is bow window:

  1. a rounded bay window.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bow+window)


"Selecting from the few queer houses upon Mill Pond Bank a house with a wooden front and three stories of bow-window (not bay-window, which is another thing), I looked at the plate upon the door, and read there, Mrs. Whimple."

 - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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