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noun

Lunette n.

(Fort.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

(Far.) A half horseshoe, which lacks the sponge.

A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.

A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

(Arch.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

Lunette window (Arch.), a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lunette" Quotes from Famous Books

... attraction; but the town has many churches, and some creditable pictures, as well as Roman antiquities. Giovanni Santi may here be seen almost as well as at Cagli; and of Perugino there is one truly magnificent altar-piece—lunette, great centre panel, and predella—dusty in its present condition, but splendidly painted, and happily not yet restored or cleaned. It is worth journeying to Fano to see this. Still better would the journey be worth the traveller's while if he could be sure to ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... the life. In the house of Pulidoro Bracciolini there is a picture by his hand of the Birth of Our Lady; and in the Hall of the Tribunal of Eight in Florence he painted in distemper a Madonna with the Child in her arms, on a lunette. In the house of Lodovico Capponi there is another picture with a very beautiful Madonna; and in the hands of Bernardo Vecchietti, a gentleman of Florence and a man of a culture and excellence beyond my power of expression, there is a little picture by the hand of the same man, containing ...

— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 3 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna • Giorgio Vasari

... as in the Myrelaion, S. Theodore, and the Pantepoptes. On the other hand, in at least one case, the parecclesion of the Pammakaristos, the central part of the chapel is designed in the usual three tiers, but the apse and bema vaults spring from the lower or abacus string-course, leaving a lunette in the dome arch above pierced by a large window. A corresponding lunette at the west end opens into the gynecaeum of the chapel. In S. John in Trullo the two string-courses coalesce and the arches connecting the columns with the walls cut into the stilted part of the dome ...

— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen

... instance, he held a lash with three balls attached to chains. Though I call them satyrs, they showed nothing of the satyr except little horns and a goatish head; all the rest of their form was human. In the lunette above I placed a female figure lying in an attitude of noble grace; she rested her left arm on a stag's neck, this animal being one of the King's emblems. On one side I worked little fawns in half relief, with some wild boars ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

Words linked to "Lunette" : fenestella, vault