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Bay window   /beɪ wˈɪndoʊ/   Listen
noun
Bay window  n.  
1.
(Arch.) A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; often corruptly called a bow window.
Synonyms: bay window, bow window, bow-window.
2.
A protruding abdomen. (informal)
Synonyms: belly, paunch, pot, potbelly, corporation, tummy.





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"Bay window" Quotes from Famous Books



... who signed it were David Monroe, of the North American Review; Robert Reid, the painter, and about thirty others of the Round Table Group, so called because its members were accustomed to lunching at a large round table in a bay window of the Player dining-room. Mark Twain's reply was prompt and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... steps under a handsome groined roof supported by a single pillar. The Hall is 115 feet long, 40 wide, and 50 high. The open roof of oak richly carved, decorated with the arms of Wolsey and Henry VIII. Other carvings adorn the fire-place and a fine bay window. ...
— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney
... bay window, her fingers busy with her embroidery, and her mind completely filled with plans for another piece when that particular ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... beside, within a bay window, Stood one in green, full large of breadth and length, His beard as black as feathers of the crow; His name was Lust, of wondrous might and strength; And with Delight to argue there he think'th, For this was alway his opinion, That love was sin: ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... Frederic Frieseke, our expatriated American, with his fascinating boudoir scenes. Very high in key and full of detail, at first they seem restless and crowded, which some actually are, in a degree. But canvases like "The Garden" and "The Bay Window" and "The Boudoir" are real jewels of light and colour. "The Bay Window" is the most placid of his canvases and in conception much finer than his outdoor subjects. Frieseke's clear, joyous art is typically modern, and expresses the best tendency ...
— The Galleries of the Exposition • Eugen Neuhaus


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