casement

English

open-in and open-out casement windows

Noun

casement (plural casements)

A window sash that is hinged on the side.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 7:6–7:
  
  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
A window having such sashes; a casement window.^Wp
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
  The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
  
  The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
(military) Occasionally seen as a usage error due to the similarity of the words: A casemate.

Hyponyms

(window): French casement

Translations

window sash hinged on the side

Finnish: sivusaranoitu puite
German: Fensterflügel m, Drehflügel m

Italian: battente (it) m, anta (it) f, persiana (it) f

casement window — see casement window

casemate — see casemate

References

casement at OneLook Dictionary Search
casement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
casement windows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

can't seem, cæments, menacest

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