NOUN
- a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window
- the window in a gabled extension built to accommodate a window
How To Use dormer window In A Sentence
- It was a small room with a dormer window overlooking the railway line. TOY SHOP
- A real bonus of this property is the converted attic, an almost 14 square metre room with a large dormer window.
- The roof is low-pitched and small dormer windows are sometimes used.
- Recently, Jenkins used two pairs of paintings in a home at a slant where dormer windows met a wall in order to create height in a small space.
- A square roofe without Dormans, with two Lucoms on each side," means, I think, without dormer windows, and with luthern windows. Sabbath in Puritan New England
- A dormer window affords sea views while there is also an en suite shower room.
- The double has a built-in sink unit and storage presses as well as a built-in wardrobe, while the single is of medium size with a large dormer window.
- The en suite shower room has a tiled stand-in shower, a hand basin and a dormer window.
- Its stout ribs, curving outwards and downwards from this magnificent balk, supported the carvel-built roof, so that the upper half of the building appeared -- and indeed was -- a large inverted hull, decorated with dormer windows, brick chimneys, and a round pigeon-house surmounted by a gilded vane. Wandering Heath
- Gables, by the way, are actual extensions of the roof line and are not to be confused with dormer windows, which can spring up in the middle of a section of roof.
