casement en · NOUN
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Meanings
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A window sash that is hinged on the side.
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:6–7:
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A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ
Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 229:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.
1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night:Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
- A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| casements | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (8)
fi sivusaranoitu puite (window sash hinged on the side) · de Fensterflügel (window sash hinged on the side) · it persiana (window sash hinged on the side) · it anta (window sash hinged on the side) · de Drehflügel (window sash hinged on the side) · es hoja de ventana (window sash hinged on the side) · it battente (window sash hinged on the side) · ota چرچوه (window sash hinged on the side)