fanlight

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English

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A fanlight in Bilbao, Spain.

Etymology

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From fan + light (window).

Noun

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fanlight (plural fanlights)

  1. a semicircular or semioval window over a door or other window, normally having a fan-like structure of ribs; sometimes hinged to the transom
    • 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 65:
      This street is Summer. Faces of brick run together to make a single block-long face. The house numbers are set in fanlights of stained glass above the doors.
    • 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter:
      It turned out to be a big gloomy pile with ivy and peeling walls and a smashed fanlight over the door, the kind of place where you picture a mad stepdaughter locked up in the attic.
  2. an electric fan, usually a ceiling fan, that is also a light fixture

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