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MULLIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mullioned mean? 

MULLIONED (adjective)
  The adjective MULLIONED has 1 sense:

1. of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stoneplay

  Familiarity information: MULLIONED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MULLIONED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone

Context example:

mullioned windows

Similar:

divided (separated into parts or pieces)


 Context examples 


The window at which I stood was tall and deep, stone-mullioned, and though weatherworn, was still complete; but it was evidently many a day since the case had been there.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect; a stone tablet over the door bore this inscription:—Lowood Institution.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The room was very spacious, lighted on one side by three arched and mullioned windows, while opposite was a huge fireplace in which a pile of faggots was blazing merrily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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