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Definition of 'lunette'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lunette
any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.

2. lunette
an area in a wall enframed by an arch or vault.

3. lunette
a painting, sculpture, or window filling such an area.

Etymology: (1570–80; < F, dim. of lune moon < L lūna; see -ette)

Definition of 'lunette'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) lunette
temporary fortification like a detached bastion

2. (noun) lunette, fenestella
oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault

Definition of 'lunette'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lunette
a fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion

2. (noun) lunette
a half horseshoe, which wants the sponge

3. (noun) lunette
a kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles

4. (noun) lunette
a piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse

5. (noun) lunette
any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line

6. (noun) lunette
an iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage

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