Synonyms for lunette

Grammar : Noun

Spell : loo-net

Phonetic Transcription : luˈnɛt

Top 10 synonyms for lunette

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Définition of lunette

Origin : 1570s, "semi-circular horseshoe," from Middle French lunette (13c.), literally "little moon," diminutive of lune "moon," from Latin luna (see luna). Later applied to a wide range of objects and ornamentations resembling a crescent moon.

As in window : noun framework with pane

Example sentences :

Only on Sans Quartier's cabbage-patch the lunette now stood complete.
Extract from : « Fort Amity » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

It seems that there was a lunette over the top, containing a Pietà.
Extract from : « Luca Signorelli » by Maud Cruttwell

The archbishop fell to the ground, as did the lunette of the monstrance.
Extract from : « The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 » by Various

This work has a lunette which is generally, and I suppose correctly, ascribed to Gaudenzio.
Extract from : « Ex Voto » by Samuel Bulter

The lunette, however, was evidently painted by the Limbourgs.
Extract from : « Chantilly in History and Art » by Louise M. Richter

It is figured in the lunette of the vault in the accompanying engraving.
Extract from : « The Catacombs of Rome » by William Henry Withrow

The fresco in the lunette is by Michele di Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.
Extract from : « The Story of Florence » by Edmund G. Gardner

These soon silenced its guns, and the lunette was abandoned by the garrison.
Extract from : « The Franco-German War of 1870-71 » by Count Helmuth, von Moltke

How dignified was his sense of repose, is seen in the lunette of the Ascension.
Extract from : « Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century » by Estelle M. Hurll

The escarp of Lunette 53 was successfully breached by this method.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 » by Various

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