Lunettes

Word LUNETTES
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Definitions and meanings of "Lunettes"

What do we mean by lunettes?

A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.

A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.

An image or other representation of a crescent moon.

(fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.

A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.

A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.

The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.

A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.

A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.

A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

(in the plural) See lunettes.

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The word "lunettes" in example sentences

I suppose Monsieur did not see her, or he had taken a whim that he would not notice her, for he was as capricious as women are said to be; then his "lunettes" (he had got another pair) served him as an excuse for all sorts of little oversights and shortcomings. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

I knew the value of these "lunettes": M. Paul's sight was peculiar, not easily fitted, and these glasses suited him. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

I now found the advantage of proximity: these short-sighted "lunettes" were useless for the inspection of a criminal under Monsieur's nose; accordingly, he doffed them, and he and I stood on more equal terms. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

So, at last, crowning himself with his bonnet-grec, and taking his ruined "lunettes" from my hand with a clasp of kind pardon and encouragement, he made his bow, and went off to the Athénée in first-rate humour and spirits. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

Thus impelled, it slid down the polished slope of the varnished and unbaized desk, carried before it the light steel - framed "lunettes," and, fearful to relate, they fell to the estrade. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

So I have to check at the beginning of every class, “Vous avez les lunettes cette fois?” ❋ Kate Fleurange (2009)

The lunettes bear symbolic weight, but both their literal references and their meaning have remained obscure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The entire dome resembles a painted latticework pergola, with garlands of fruits and flowers, and wonderful oval frames surrounding rollicking putti or cupids, beneath which are lunettes of classical figures in grisaille, atop a cornice with painted columns supported by ram's heads, festooned draperies and domestic objects like pitchers and bowls. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(At least one figure in the lunettes looks like the master's David in Florence.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Market Saw has a good list of 3d movies and is careful not to fall for the 3d animation problem. rajshekar dude wat about my boody valentine this suppposed to be in 3d right..... lunettes 3D yes, it is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A shower provides shimmering reflections in the wet pavement of the Piazza San Marco: the basilica's complex façade, with its rows of stacked columns, lunettes and glittering mosaics, fuses with the figures milling in front of the splendid doors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For instance, he had to remove four other works of art that already adorned the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel—including two lunettes that he himself had painted previously. ❋ Sharon Carter Rogers (2008)

At the top of the painting are two lunettes that appear to represent heaven. ❋ Sharon Carter Rogers (2008)

These bleak rooms had narrow, unglazed windows or lunettes shaped like a crescent moon that let in the highly regarded light and air, but also kept the patients perpetually cold. ❋ Catharine Arnold (2008)

In her film, after the lovers part, Godard dons his "lunettes noirs" and watches his beloved skip away... but everything that was white about her a moment ago -- her dress, her shoes, her hair, even her skin -- has turned black, when seen through his dusky lenses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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