Lucarne
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LUCARNE, a French architectural term for a garret window, also for the lights or small windows in spires.
lucarne [luːˈkûːn]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a type of dormer window ...
LucarneSmall gabled opening in a roof or spire.Luckenbooth(Scots): Lock-up booth or shop.Lugged ...
Lucarne - A small opening in an attic or a spire. Also called A dormer window.
Lunette - A semicircular opening or tympanum. The term can also be applied to any flat, semicircular surface ...
The term lucarne is used in France to mean "dormer window". They take many different forms which distinguishes the form of small roof above the window.
GABLET: a small gable (for example, above a lucarne). GADROONING: a simple moulding formed of a line of convex ridges, frequently angled and slightly overlapping. GALLETING: small stones set in a mortar course. GALILEE: a porch at the W.
The crowning features of their exteriors are those magnified versions of dormer windows, the lucarnes.
 See also: Spire, Architecture, Dormer, Gable, Gothic
  
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