: a window sash that opens on hinges at the side
also
: a window with such a sash
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Sunlight pouring in through the large casement window, which is open.
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Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
There were also repairs made to the glass awning and steel casement windows.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Looking over the library, a guest bedroom takes up the rest of the top floor and is lit with two skylights and a casement window over the garden.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
In the back of the room is a bar, which is also the kitchen; at the front, just inside a great casement window that fills the front wall, is a spinet piano made of blond wood and confettied with stickers.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
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Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
There were also repairs made to the glass awning and steel casement windows.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Looking over the library, a guest bedroom takes up the rest of the top floor and is lit with two skylights and a casement window over the garden.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
In the back of the room is a bar, which is also the kitchen; at the front, just inside a great casement window that fills the front wall, is a spinet piano made of blond wood and confettied with stickers.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Casement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/casement. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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casement
noun
case·ment
ˈkā-smənt 
1
: a window frame opening on hinges like a door
2
: a window with a casement
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