Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A skylight, or any beveled aperture made in the wall of an apartment or in a roof, for the better admission of light from above.
  • noun A sloping, box-like structure, flaring upward and open at the top, attached to a window on the outside, to prevent those within from seeing objects below, or for the purpose of directing light downward into the window.

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Examples

  • Read on ... abat-jour (ahbah-joohr) noun, masculine

    abat-jour - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Read on ... abat-jour (ahbah-joohr) noun, masculine

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Read on ... abat-jour (ahbah-joohr) noun, masculine

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Regretfully Silk let down the movable section of the abat-jour, retrieved his horsehair rope, and untied the rough limb that had served him so well.

    Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

  • Circuitous though it seemed, removing panes from the abat-jour might actually be a more prudent approach.

    Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

  • He had removed the green _abat-jour_, for the candle-shades (as they sometimes will) were performing their office.

    Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

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