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Fanlight

[fan-lahyt]

fan·light

[fan-lahyt]
noun
a window over a door or another window, especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse.

Origin:
1835–45; fan1 + light1
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Fanlight is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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fanlight (ˈfænˌlaɪt)
 
n
1.  a semicircular window over a door or window, often having sash bars like the ribs of a fan
2.  US name: transom a small rectangular window over a door
3.  another name for skylight

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