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

  1. Architecture A large window or series of windows projecting from the outer wall of a building and forming a recess within.

  2. Slang A protruding belly; a paunch.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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bay window

  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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