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noun

Windowpane n.

(Arch.) See Pane, n., 3 (b). (In this sense, written also window pane)

(Zool.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.

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Etymology of 'Windowpane'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Windowpane" Quotes from Famous Books

... breathlessly to know where the place was. But there was silence. Adolph's great shoulder pressed against the little windowpane, and a corner ...

— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine

... another way bright for her, and of a blinding brightness from which she often had to hide her face. She embroidered all her thoughts with starry intricacies, and gave them the splendour of frosty traceries upon the windowpane in a frigid time, and of the raindrop in the sun, and summered them with fragrancing of the many early and late flowers of her own fanciful conjuring. They are glittering garlands of her clear, cool fancies, these poems, fraught in some instances, as are certain finely ...

— Adventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets • Marsden Hartley

Words linked to "Windowpane" : window glass, window, windowpane oyster, genus Scophthalmus, Scophthalmus, Scophthalmus aquosus