FRENCH WINDOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French window mean? 

• FRENCH WINDOW (noun)
  The noun FRENCH WINDOW has 1 sense:

1. a French door situated in an exterior wall of a building

  Familiarity information: FRENCH WINDOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENCH WINDOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A French door situated in an exterior wall of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("French window" is a kind of...):

French door (a light door with transparent or glazed panels extending the full length)

 Context examples 

When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses.

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

He walked to the French window and threw it open.

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

At the further end from the door was the high French window of which we had heard.

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

He showed me out through his own French window, which had been open all this time.

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