lunette

Plural: lunettes

Noun

• temporary fortification like a detached bastion
• oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
• A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
• A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
• An image or other representation of a crescent moon.
• A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
• A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
• A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
• The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
• A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
• A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
• A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
• An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
• See lunettes.

Synonyms

fenestella

Related Words

meniscus