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A lunette may also be segmental, and the arch may be an arc taken from an oval. A lunette window is commonly called a half-moon window, or fanlight when bars separating its panes fan out radially. If a door is set within a round-headed arch, the space within the arch above the door, masonry or glass is a lunette.
This word comes from French lorgnette, from lorgner (to take a sidelong look at), but it is a false friend: the equivalent French name for this (obsolete) optical instrument is face-à-main while lorgnette (or lunette d'approche, longue-vue) usually means a ship captain's (monocular) telescope.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.
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Alice's sense of agency is further conveyed by her dress... Little girls' dresses in mid- to late nineteenth-century Europe were, even with certain restrictions, slightly more practical than adults', and the dress Alice wore in Tenniel's illustrations was a fashion current to the time of the book with a faint hint of the practical future ...
In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion standing by itself without curtains on either side.
A lunette is a moon-shaped architectural detail. Lunette may also refer to: Lunette (fortification), an outwork consisting of a salient angle with two flanks and an open gorge; Lunette , a fictional character in the animated television series "Gargoyles" Lunette (geology), a wind-formed crescent dune shape