Synonyms for lunette


Grammar : Noun
Spell : loo-net
Phonetic Transcription : luˈnɛt

Top 10 synonyms for lunette Other synonyms for the word lunette

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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