dormer
see also: Dormer
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Dormer
Etymology
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see also: Dormer
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle French dormoir, from dormir ("to sleep").
Noundormer (plural dormers)
- (architecture) A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof.
- 1904 May, Winston Churchill, “The Strange City”, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 371 ↗:
- Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof.
- (architecture) Ellipsis of dormer-window.
- German: Dachgaube
- Italian: abbaìno
dormer (plural dormers)
Dormer
Etymology
Most probably an English habitational surname, but if so the place of origin has not been identified. It could also be a reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Díorma.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)/
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