Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Architecture Having windows or windowlike openings.
- adjective Biology Having fenestrae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In surgical instruments, having large openings.
- In architecture, having windows; windowed; characterized by windows.
- Same as
fenestral .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Having windows; characterized by windows.
- adjective Same as
Fenestrate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective architecture Having
windows
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I was intrigued on how the owners managed to keep the plants on the wall surfaces alive in a non-fenestrated space.
The Greenhouse Nightclub Interior by bluarch Architecture 2009
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A large Sunburst Honey Locust was planted the day after the foundations were poured to provide shade to the largely fenestrated south facing façade during the hot summer months.
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Glassy north and south facades are contrasted with carefully fenestrated cast concrete east and west walls to protect privacy and provide thermal mass and solar protection.
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His Metropolitan Correctional Center, also in that city, is a sculptural, humanitarian design wrapped in a 27-story, triangular-shaped, cleverly fenestrated skyscraper.
J. Michael Welton: In Aspen, the Value of Architecture J. Michael Welton 2010
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Finally it became fenestrated, producing the classic torosaurus form.
Triceratops Was Juvenile Form Of Another Species Of Dinosaur, Scientists Say 2010
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We sat in the huge fenestrated space, the house expensive beyond dreams, servants waiting somewhere, a beautiful woman, dresser of hair, a hardness to her mouth, fibro house in Broadmeadows floating out there in her past, sweet, sad memories of a patch of dying lawn, a father and a mother and a little girl.
November 2007 Maxine 2007
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We sat in the huge fenestrated space, the house expensive beyond dreams, servants waiting somewhere, a beautiful woman, dresser of hair, a hardness to her mouth, fibro house in Broadmeadows floating out there in her past, sweet, sad memories of a patch of dying lawn, a father and a mother and a little girl.
Sunday Salon: conveying characters Maxine 2007
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We sat in the huge fenestrated space, the house expensive beyond dreams, servants waiting somewhere, a beautiful woman, dresser of hair, a hardness to her mouth, fibro house in Broadmeadows floating out there in her past, sweet, sad memories of a patch of dying lawn, a father and a mother and a little girl.
Sunday Salon: conveying characters Maxine 2007
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Most have ornate, fenestrated frills, and the skulls are all fairly well-known.
Archive 2009-03-01 Prehistoric Insanity 2009
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Most have ornate, fenestrated frills, and the skulls are all fairly well-known.
Life's Time Capsule: The Ceratopsians Gallery Traumador 2009
xntrek commented on the word fenestrated
(*) fenestration,
(n) having designed and placed openings,
(*) etymology - latin - fenestra = a window
May 8, 2009
jfk commented on the word fenestrated
better than being defenestrated
May 8, 2009