Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - lunette
Lunette
lunette
n. 1 an arched aperture in a domed ceiling to admit light. 2 a crescent-shaped or semicircular space or alcove which contains a painting, statue, etc. 3 a watch-glass of flattened shape. 4 a ring through which a hook is placed to attach a vehicle to the vehicle towing it. 5 a temporary fortification with two faces forming a salient angle, and two flanks. 6 RC Ch. a holder for the consecrated host in a monstrance. Etymology: F, dimin. of lune (see LUNE)
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noun Etymology: French, from Old French lunete small object shaped like the moon, from lune moon Date: circa 1639 something that has the shape of a crescent or half-moon: as, an opening in a vault especially for a window, the surface at the upper part of a wall that is partly surrounded by a vault which the wall intersects and that is often filled by windows or by mural painting, a low crescentic mound (as of sand) formed by the wind, the figure or shape of a crescent moon ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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