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window board

noun

  1. a thin board serving as a stool of a window.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of window board1

First recorded in 1620–30

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Example Sentences

A window-board was installed, with the result that the men recovered and no other cases of skin rash occurred in that room.

At one moment he was jostled by a porter, at another trod on by a horse; then he knocked his head against a window-board.

The man bowed, took the bread, and laid it beside him on the window-board.

In winter, ventilation is best secured by means of a window-board.

Dawn was breaking, and its woolly light crept lazily in at the little window, past the lamp that still burned on the window board.

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