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noun

any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.

Architecture. (in the plane of a wall) an area enframed by an arch or vault.

a painting, sculpture, or window filling such an area.

Fortification. a work consisting of a salient angle with two flanks and an open gorge.

Ordnance. a towing ring in the trail plate of a towed vehicle, as a gun carriage.

Ecclesiastical, Luna ( def 3 ).

Origin:
1570–80; < French, diminutive of lune moon < Latin lūna; see -ette

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Lunette is always a great word to know.

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a low wall forming a base for a construction, as a colonnade or dome; the masonry supporting a classical temple

the part of a classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usually decorated with sculpture in low relief

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World English Dictionary

lunette (luːˈnɛt)

—n
1.	anything that is shaped like a crescent
2.	an oval or circular opening to admit light in a dome
3.	a semicircular panel containing a window, mural, or sculpture
4.	a ring attached to a vehicle, into which a hook is inserted so that it can be towed
5.	a type of fortification like a detached bastion
6.	RC Church Also called: lune a case fitted with a bracket to hold the consecrated host

[C16: from French: crescent, from lune moon, from Latin lūna]

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Word Origin & History

lunette

1580, from M.Fr., lit. "little moon," dim. of lune "moon," from L. luna. Originally a type of horse shoe, later applied to a wide range of objects and ornamentations resembling a crescent moon.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

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lunette

arching aperture in a wall or concave ceiling. It may be crescent-shaped or semicircular. The word is the French diminutive of lune, "moon." Lunettes may function as windows, they may form a cove for ornament or statuary, or they may be simply a section of wall framed by an arch or vault. In the last case, the area will sometimes be decorated with a mural.

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Example sentences

Two square windows equipped with metal grates are on either side of the lunette

at the mezzanine level.

The intersecting gables on each side are stuccoed and have a lunette window

with limestone keystone.

The tetrastyle fluted-columned portico features a semicircular lunette in the

tympanum.

The main figures here are less persuasive than in the final lunette.