windowy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From window +‎ -y.

Adjective[edit]

windowy (comparative more windowy, superlative most windowy)

  1. (rare, obsolete) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. [17th c.]
    • a. 1631, John Donne, “The Baite”, in Poems, published 1633:
      Let others freeze with angling reeds,
      And cut their legges, with shells and weeds,
      Or treacherously poore fish beset,
      With strangling snare, or windowie net []
  2. Having many windows. [from 19th c.]