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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
1400–50; late Middle English
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| 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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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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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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