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Door with sidelights. A sidelight or sidelite in a building is a window, usually with a vertical emphasis, that flanks a door or a larger window. [1] Sidelights are narrow, usually stationary and found immediately adjacent to doorways.
Domestic interior by Jan Vermeer showing a leadlight casement window. Leadlights, leaded lights or leaded windows are decorative windows made of small sections of glass supported in lead cames. The technique of creating windows using glass and lead came to be known as came glasswork.
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame [1] in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window. [2]
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Transom or transom window is also the customary U.S. word used for a transom light, the window over this crosspiece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Britain , the transom light is usually referred to as a fanlight , often with a semi-circular shape, especially when the window is segmented like the slats of a folding hand fan .
Quarter glass is also sometimes called a valence window. [2] This window may be set on hinges and is then also known as a vent window, wing window, wing vent window, or a fly window. Most often found on older vehicles on the front doors, it is a small roughly triangular glass in front of and separate from the main window that rotates inward ...
Lancet windows may occur singly, or paired under a single moulding, or grouped in an odd number with the tallest window at the centre. The lancet window first appeared in the early French Gothic period (c. 1140–1200), and later in the English period of Gothic architecture (1200–1275). So common was the lancet window feature that this era is ...
The new Hog Island tower was painted black to distinguish it from the nearly identical sister, Cape Charles light that is painted white. In 1900 early in the evening on Washington's Birthday a huge flock of birds, mostly geese and ducks, smashed into the lantern of the Hog Island Lighthouse. The two keepers fired their shotguns at the birds to ...