Bow-window
a rounded bay window.
Historical Examples
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray
Grace Harlowe’s Return to Overton Campus Jessie Graham Flower
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
A Laodicean Thomas Hardy
Murder Point Coningsby Dawson
Christmas Roses and Other Stories Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 Various
Told by the Death’s Head Mr Jkai
Ancestors Gertrude Atherton
The Parent’s Assistant Maria Edgeworth
noun
a bay window in the shape of a curve
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