Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fitted with a transom or with transoms, as a door or window.
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- adjective Fitted with a
transom .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The moment she crossed the threshold and Imogene pulled the transomed door closed, the man seated behind the desk sprang to his feet.
Best Kept Secrets Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1989
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Each story contains two windows of two lights, transomed, the whole terminating in an embattled parapet, with crocketed pinnacles at the corners, surmounted by vanes.
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The = tower = is in two stages, a lofty lantern story having two transomed two-light windows on each face and a shorter upper one having smaller windows without transoms and a battlemented parapet.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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Everywhere we see signs of individual thought and design mainly directed to softening the rigidity of the horizontal lines of the square-headed and transomed "Perpendicular" windows.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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Up the main street, through either of the gateways, are houses with sculptured doors and transomed windows which tell of better days.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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The window, 'unveiled by Mr. Choate on Monday, 22nd May, 1905, is of three lights, transomed, as designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield and Sons, the glass being made in America under the supervision of Mr. Charles F. McKim, the famous American architect.
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The tower itself is of two stages, with two two-light windows in each stage; the windows are transomed in each face, and the lower tier is canopied; each angle is rounded off with an octagonal turret and the whole structure is a marvellous example of architectural harmony, and in every way a work of transcendent beauty.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
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Within the mullioned and transomed windows he could see the black, brown, and flaxen crowns of the scholars over the sills, and to pass the time away he walked down to the level terrace where the abbey gardens once had spread, his heart throbbing in spite of him.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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It was an ancient edifice of the fifteenth century, once a palace, now a training-school, with mullioned and transomed windows, and a courtyard in front shut in from the road by a wall.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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Within the mullioned and transomed windows he could see the black, brown, and flaxen crowns of the scholars over the sills, and to pass the time away he walked down to the level terrace where the abbey gardens once had spread, his heart throbbing in spite of him.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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