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windowpane

[ win-doh-peyn ]

noun

  1. a plate of glass for filling a window sash within the frame.
  2. a flounder, Scophthalmus aquosus, occurring along the Atlantic coast of North America, characterized by the thinness and translucency of its body.


adjective

  1. designating or having a large, regular design of intersecting lines resembling a series of windowpanes:

    a windowpane plaid sweater.

windowpane

/ ˈɪԻəʊˌɪ /

noun

  1. a sheet of glass in a window
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of windowpane1

First recorded in 1810–20; window + pane
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Bozell used a metal object to shatter the windowpane of the Senate Wing Door.

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Mr. Cranston, a large, shapeless man anyway, in a bowler hat and his windowpane plaid greatcoat under his life preserver.

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Walking up the stairwell, he pointed to where a sniper round punched through a windowpane.

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Gia removed one of Fournier’s watches from her pocket, and when she opened the lid, brown night moths froze flat against the windowpane.

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The plane, an Airbus A321, had four damaged windowpanes, including two that were completely missing, as it took off from London Stansted Airport on Oct.

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