cottage window


noun
  1. a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.

  • Also called front window.

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How to use cottage window in a sentence

  • The next moment he had dashed down the front window, and shouted to the postillions to go on.

    By Birth a Lady | George Manville Fenn
  • Daisy Shaw knocked quickly on the front window with her little, nervous hand in its tight, white kid glove.

    The Butterfly House | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Nat found Mrs. Parloe sitting in an easy chair by a front window.

    From Farm to Fortune | Horatio Alger Jr.
  • Vines covered the front window in which only a few splinters of glass hung on the rim.

    The Jewels of Aptor | Samuel R. Delany
  • Often on a bright afternoon Mrs. Parsons will watch from her front window the "teams" that pass, going to the bay.

    By The Sea | Heman White Chaplin