Dormer Window.

The window of an attic standing out from the slope of the roof. (O. French, dormeor=a sleeping room formerly fitted with windows of this kind.)        

“Thatched were the roofs, with dormer windows.”

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Longfellow: Evangeline, part i. stanza 1.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Dorcas Society
Dorchester
Doric
Doric Dialect
Doric Land
Doric Reed
Doricourt
Dorigen
Dorimant
Dorinda
Dormer Window
Dornock
Dorothea (St.)
Dorset
Dorsetian Downs
Dositheans
Doson
Doss
Doss-house (A)
Dosser
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