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noun
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any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.
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Architecture. (in the plane of a wall) an area enframed by an arch or vault.
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a painting, sculpture, or window filling such an area.
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EXPANDOrdnance. a towing ring in the trail plate of a towed vehicle, as a gun carriage.
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Lunette
is always a great word to know.
So is frontispiece. Does it mean:
| a series of arches supported on piers or columns; an arched or covered passageway |
| a fa?ade, or a part or feature of a fa?ade, often highlighted by ornamentation |
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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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