lunette

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noun
Plural noun:
lunettes
  1. 1.

    (architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.

  2. 2.

    (architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.

    The decoration of a lunette discovered in the Duomo of Pistoia in the 1950s, which represents Christ blessing and Saints James and John, all bust-length, constitutes a more remarkable and stylistically more advanced approach to painting.

  3. 3.

    (obsolete)An image or other representation of a crescent moon.

  4. 4.

    (fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.

  5. 5.

    (Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.

  6. 6.

    A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.

  7. 7.

    The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.

  8. 8.

    (geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.

  9. 9.

    (farriery) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.

  10. 10.

    A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

  11. 11.

    An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

  12. 12.

    (in plural)(in the plural) See lunettes.

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French lunette, diminutive of lune (moon).

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