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bay window
noun
1
: a window or series of windows forming a bay in a room and projecting outward from the wall
2
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Examples of bay window in a Sentence
he shopped the company's big and tall line for shirts to fit his bay window
Recent Examples on the Web
No doubt the trio of all-glass bay windows with views of Rose Park helped win the abode its AIA Honor Award and Architectural Record’s #1 Award of Excellence for House Design, too.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2024
Watching an 18-year-old woman arrive in New York City, move into a dorm with bay windows and proceed to have two sickeningly cute guys fall in love with her during her freshman year gave me some slightly unrealistic expectations about university life.
—Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
The room is handsome enough, as functional living spaces go, with a bay window facing the historic house across the street and a mantelpiece that serves as the focus until attention is usurped by the arrival of the television.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
And yet, the overlapping-frames strategy tends to blur the lines between the various families involved, trapping us in a CG snowglobe, as virtual seasons change and time marches past the wide bay window.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of bay window was
in the 15th century
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“Bay window.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bay%20window. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
bay window
noun
: a window or set of windows that sticks out from the wall of a building
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