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coffin window

coffin window noun: synonym of witch window.

coffin window: synonym of witch window
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Noun

coffin window (plural coffin windows)

  1. Synonym of witch window.
    • He stuck his big shoulders out the coffin window and bellowed at them, he seized their hands impartially and bellowed to them when they were close in the same voice he used for distance.1921, John Henry Walsh, chapter XIV, in Glenwood of Shipbay, Macmillan Publishers, page 95
    • Beside it, in the front wall of the house, is a coffin window, an object that I have never before come across.1930 July, Viscountess Wolseley, “Historic Houses of Sussex No. 33—Oxenbridge, in Iden”, in The Sussex County Magazine, volume IV, number 7, page 538
    Synonyms:
    witch window

Examples of coffin window in a sentence

  • There was a “coffin window” on the stairs.[1991, Jane Scnhell, Changing Gears: Bicycling America's Perimeter, Milner Press, →ISBN, page 330:
  • Some locals also call them "coffin windows," based on a theory that they were used to slide coffins out of upper floors.[2026 January 16, Ellsworth Toohey, “Vermont's tilted "witch windows" were supposedly designed to stop witches”, in BoingBoing, archived...

Synonyms of coffin window

Forms of coffin window

pluralcoffin windows

Origin of coffin window

From the urban legend that coffins were slid out of the windows from upper floors.

Questions about coffin window

What does coffin window mean?
Coffin window means synonym of witch window.
How do you use coffin window in a sentence?
There was a “coffin window” on the stairs.
What part of speech is coffin window?
Coffin window is a noun.
What is the plural of coffin window?
The plural of coffin window is coffin windows.

Words near coffin window in the dictionary

  1. coffin ship
  2. coffin ships
  3. coffin tack
  4. coffin tacks
  5. Coffin Texts
  6. coffin window
  7. coffin windows
  8. Coffin-Lowry syndrome
  9. Coffin-Siris syndrome
  10. coffined
  11. coffinful

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