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Door of 10 Downing Street, London, showing a transom separating the door from the window above. In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it. This contrasts with a mullion, a vertical structural member. [1] Transom or transom window is also the customary U ...
Also, the external divisions of a building by fenestration (windows). Bay window A window of one or more storeys projecting from the face of a building. Canted: with a straight front and angled sides. Bow window: curved. Oriel: rests on corbels or brackets and starts above ground level; also the bay window at the dais end of a medieval great ...
Transom (architecture), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window, or the window above such a bar; Transom (nautical), that part of the stern of a vessel where the two sides of its hull meet; Operation Transom, a World War II bombing raid on Surabaya in Java; Transom knot, a simple lashing knot; Tug Transom, a British daily ...
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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]
Santa Claus is front and center in this display within a window display circa 1920s that's all about toy trucks, cars and bikes. Fun fact: The Emigh-Winchell Hardware Company in Sacramento, CA ...
Characteristically the rectangular window is divided into four individual lights by a mullion and transom in the form of a Latin cross.The window cross was original made of stone ('stone cross-window'); not until the Renaissance and Baroque periods did the timber cross-window emerge (e. g. on the abbey castle of Escorial and on other buildings in the Herrerian style).
A mullioned window in the church of San Francesco of Lodi, Lombardy. A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. [1] It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units