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Fanlight

noun

A window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door. Synonyms: transom, transom window.

A window in a roof to admit daylight. Synonym: skylight.

A semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan.

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"Fanlight" Quotes from Famous Books

... camphor, and dust-motes in a sunbeam through the fanlight over the door. The little old house! A mausoleum! And, turning on his heel, he went ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... Loveday Strick in the morning-room, the flow of the kitchen ebbed and subsided. Loveday followed the white and black through the long, narrow hall, where the fox's mask grinned at her from above the fanlight of the door, to the presence ...

— The White Riband - A Young Female's Folly • Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

... Faringfields—that the next outbreak came, between him and Master Edward. If ever the broad mansion of the Faringfields looked warm and welcoming, it was in midwinter. The great front doorway, with its fanlight above, and its panel windows at each side, through which the light shone during the long evenings, and with its broad stone steps and out-curving iron railings, had then its most hospitable aspect. One evening ...

— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens

Words linked to "Fanlight" : window