bay window
Noun
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Noun
bay window (plural bay windows)
- (architecture) A window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
- (figuratively) A protruding belly.
- 1948, Godfrey Poage, What You Ought to Know Before Marriage, St. Louis: The Queen’s Work, p. 12,
- Marriages that are based only on sex appeal generally fizzle out as soon as he gets a bay window and her figure becomes a bit lumpish.
- 1982, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending, McClelland & Stewart (2004), ISBN 0771086903, page 126 ↗:
- Bert came hustling up, bumping his way through the kids with his bay window.
- 1948, Godfrey Poage, What You Ought to Know Before Marriage, St. Louis: The Queen’s Work, p. 12,
- (protruding belly) See also Thesaurus:paunch.
- German: Erker, Erkerfenster
- Russian: э́ркер
- Spanish: ventana de bahía, ventana saliente
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