bay window
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3.1
- noun
- /beɪ ˈwɪndoʊ/
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ventana salediza
- Cal looked out the bay window at the snowball fights in the quad.
- front bay window
- big bay window
- room with a bay window
Examples
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"Elinor, up since dawn, was drinking tea at the bay window overlooking the street, watching the butcher open his shop.
Fiction book (1999) -
"It's as big as a library!" Fading sunlight shone through a large bay window.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's got two big bay windows and a great rose garden.
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We know it's her apartment because of the bay window and the view of the George Washington Bridge.
Fiction book (2000) -
The room had a large bay window that looked out on the steep rock.
Fiction book (2001) -
My father lay in the bed near the triple bay window.
Fiction book (1995) -
The big bay windows have been thrown open, and snow is blowing in from outside.
Fiction book (1992) -
The second floor had a rounded bay window that overlooked the hotel, the beach, and the sound.
Fiction book (2001) -
The sun streamed through a sparkling bay window and splashed across the broad window seat.
Fiction book (1999) -
The living room features a beautiful bay window that floods the space with natural light.
Synonyms
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4.7
A window that sticks out from a wall in a gentle curve to give more light and space
A window that sticks out from an upper wall, sits on a bracket, and does not reach the ground
A window that sticks out from a wall and stands on brackets
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
bay + window
The slang sense maps a familiar architectural image (a bay window — a windowed projection from a wall) onto the body to describe a protruding belly, so the meaning is motivated by a visible shape analogy. However, the inference depends on knowing the literal architectural term and making a metaphorical extension, which is not automatic for all B1 learners, especially since this is slang and culturally specific.
Etymology
Bay window: The noun bay window comes from bay, an old word for a space that 'sticks out' from a wall, plus window. A window that 'sticks out' makes a small space inside, so the name now means 'a window that sticks out from the wall and creates a little extra room'.