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windowsill

Or win·dow sill

[win-doh-sil]

noun

  1. the sill under a window.



windowsill

/ ˈɪԻəʊˌɪ /

noun

  1. a sill below a window

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of windowsill1

First recorded in 1695–1705; window + sill
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Invoking modern-day references, like sending Instagram DMs and going to Disneyland, he puts his own spin on the traditional serenade, a ballad one typically sings below the windowsill of their lover.

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Her right hand, fingers curled, rests on the infernal machine, while her left hand is open on the windowsill.

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Inside, he used the power washer and a shop vac to clean out ash that had collected in the windowsills.

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And it feels wrong that some of the aftermath is deceptively pretty, like the delicate flurries of white ash accumulating on windowsills like fresh snow.

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Three months later, they were spotted on a windowsill in the winter by ecologist Daisy Cadet and her mother Ashleigh in what scientists have described as an "improbable event" that "defies rational explanation".

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