designslinger - Word of the Week: fanlight


[fanlight (1916) William McCormick Blair House /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

fanlight [FAN-lahyt] n. a semicircular or semielliptical window over a door, commonly with radiating rods or bars suggestive of an open fan, often found in Federal, Colonial and Classical Revival styles.

 

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