lunette

lunetti

lynetti puhekieltä A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape. (defdate)
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1982, (w), Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 820:

Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak.

The decoration of a lunette discovered in the Duomo of Pistoia in the 1950s, which represents Christ blessing and Saints James and John, all bust-length, constitutes a more remarkable and stylistically more advanced approach to painting.

The lesser portions of the tablet has over this Mithras, a lunette or symbol of the moon, who, according to Porphyry's comment, is the queen of generation and as such was denominated by the ancients both a bee and a bull ....

This Lunette, as we have seen, was confronted, and even in siege-form "approached", by a part of Canrobert's army ....

In mid-December ..., the French succeeded in storming the half-ruined outwork of the St Laurent lunette and advancing to a position immediately beneath the walls with their breaching batteries.

On those occasions when lunettes, custodia and monstrances are used, the sacristan needs to be sure that the lunette fits into the given monstrance, that the host fits into the lunette, and that the host is put out before Mass for consecration.

Lunette and double lunette glasses are generally sized in quarters; crystals and thin flat lunettes for hunters in eighths.

some "future" events may be likelier than others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has already closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

Sticking out of a crescent-shaped sand ridge of a type known as a lunette were some human bones.

These lunettes are relicts of a Late Pleistocene deflationary period, when the lacustrine hydrology changed from perennial water-filled lakes to dessicated mudflats.