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windowpane
[win-doh-peyn]
noun
a plate of glass for filling a window sash within the frame.
a flounder, Scophthalmus aquosus, occurring along the Atlantic coast of North America, characterized by the thinness and translucency of its body.
adjective
designating or having a large, regular design of intersecting lines resembling a series of windowpanes.
a windowpane plaid sweater.
windowpane
/ ˈɪԻəʊˌɪ /
noun
a sheet of glass in a window
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of windowpane1
Example Sentences
Lying in bed at night, I would hear the thump of the neighborhood cats landing on the roof, their shadows on the fence passing my illuminated windowpane.
Bozell used a metal object to shatter the windowpane of the Senate Wing Door.
Mr. Cranston, a large, shapeless man anyway, in a bowler hat and his windowpane plaid greatcoat under his life preserver.
Walking up the stairwell, he pointed to where a sniper round punched through a windowpane.
Gia removed one of Fournier’s watches from her pocket, and when she opened the lid, brown night moths froze flat against the windowpane.
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