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bow window

bow window noun: a curved, bow-shaped window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building; a bay window that is curved.

bow window: a curved, bow-shaped window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building; a bay...
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Noun

bow window (plural bow windows)

  1. A curved, bow-shaped window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building; a bay window that is curved.
    • The three of us stood in the bow window and occupied ourselves in admiring the magnificent view.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    compass window

bow window meaning in Tamil

bow window in Tamil

விற்பலகணி

Synonyms of bow window

Forms of bow window

pluralbow windows

Origin of bow window

From bow + window.

Questions about bow window

What does bow window mean?
Bow window means a curved, bow-shaped window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building; a bay window that is curved.
What is bow window in Tamil?
Bow window in Tamil is விற்பலகணி. See Bow window meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bow window?
Bow window is a noun.
What is the plural of bow window?
The plural of bow window is bow windows.

Words near bow window in the dictionary

  1. bow ties
  2. bow to
  3. bow up
  4. bow wave
  5. bow waves
  6. bow window
  7. bow windows
  8. bow wow
  9. bow wows
  10. bow'd
  11. Bow's notation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bow window (page history and authors); bow window (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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