bay window

noun
1.
an alcove of a room, projecting from an outside wall and having its own windows, especially one having its own foundations. Compare bow window, oriel.
2.
Informal. a large, protruding belly; paunch.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English

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bay window
 
—n
bow window See also oriel window Sometimes shortened to: bay a window projecting from the wall of a building and forming an alcove of a room

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bay window definition


  1. n.
    a belly; an abdomen. : You are going to have to do something about that bay window.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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bay window

window formed as the exterior expression of a bay within a structure, a bay in this context being an interior recess made by the outward projection of a wall. The purpose of a bay window is to admit more light than would a window flush with the wall line

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Example sentences
The second story has a dormer window next to a two-story bay window.
The building had a bay window protrusion which extended the full eight stories
  of the building.
On the northeast gable end was a bay window on the first floor.
The south elevation features another bay window that is located to the right of
  an unpainted brick chimney.
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