bow window
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bow window (plural bow windows)
- (architecture) A curved, bow-shaped window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building, similar to a bay window.
- 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- The three of us stood in the bow window and occupied ourselves in admiring the magnificent view.