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Velux

Velux noun: a skylight or roof window, especially one manufactured by the VELUX company.

Noun

Velux (plural Veluxes)

  1. A skylight or roof window, especially one manufactured by the VELUX company.
    • On the north side, he raised and classicised the stair tower window and replaced veluxes in the low-sweeping roof with a pair of piended (hipped) dormers.2007, Country Life, volume 201, numbers 1-4, page 48
    • With proper insulation and a few veluxes I could make more rooms up here — more money-earning 'chambres d'hotes'.2015, Chloe Rayban, Lost and Found, page 178

Examples of Velux in a sentence

  • There are two large Veluxes in the steeply pitched roof, and a battery of windows is set high into the bare white walls.2017, Annemarie Neary, Siren, page 223:
  • The loft was broad and high, with splendid rough-cut oak purlins and three large Veluxes.2018, R. S. Holt, Modern Magic: Stories of the Overbury Shops:

Forms of Velux

pluralVeluxes
alternative formvelux

Origin of Velux

From a trademark.

Questions about Velux

What does Velux mean?
Velux means a skylight or roof window, especially one manufactured by the VELUX company.
How do you use Velux in a sentence?
There are two large Veluxes in the steeply pitched roof, and a battery of windows is set high into the bare white walls.
What part of speech is Velux?
Velux is a noun.
What is the plural of Velux?
The plural of Velux is Veluxes.

Words near Velux in the dictionary

  1. velutinid
  2. velutinids
  3. velutinoside
  4. velutinous
  5. Veluws
  6. Velux
  7. Veluxes
  8. Velva
  9. velveeta
  10. Velveeta Voldemort
  11. velverd

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