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LUCARNE

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lu⋅carne

[loo-kahrn]
–noun
a dormer window.

Origin:
1540–50; < F; r. lucane < MF; orig. of both F forms obscure
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lu·carne   (lōō-kärn')   
n.  A dormer window.

[French, from Old French, alteration (influenced by luiserne, light) of Old Provençal lucana, possibly of Germanic origin .]
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