Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a pointed head like a lancet: said of windows. See cut of lancet-window.
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Examples
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Each bay consists of a lancet-headed trefoil, supported by octagonal pillars, with moulded capitals and bases ... total height 2ft. 9in.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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These probably constituted the lower part of a rood screen, and consist of slender pillars, supporting lancet-headed arcading.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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The face of the transept visible above displays three lancet-headed windows of the clerestory; the spaces are laid out in ornamental panels; and there is an octagonal turret on the right, with battlements and a pointed roof.
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Here the architecture belonged to the early Plantagenet era; the stone walls were thick and massive, the lancet-headed windows were long and narrow, and the arms of the early benefactors of the monastery were emblazoned here and there upon the richly stained glass.
Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875
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The east window has a semicircular head, and plain wooden tracery dividing it into two lancet-headed lights with an opening above them.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings Thomas Perkins 1874
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Of the two windows, one is square, the other lancet-headed.
The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 William Henry Gladstone 1866
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