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Windowpane   Listen
noun
Windowpane  n.  
1.
(Arch.) See Pane, n., 3 (b). (In this sense, written also window pane)
2.
(Zool.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.





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"Windowpane" Quotes from Famous Books



... matter, if I held the cold iron thereof to my lips awhile? there was no frost in the March air then. I sent my restless fingers in and out of the wards, prisoning them often therein. As thus I stood, with cheek pressed against the windowpane, looking out upon the city, set into a rim of darkness, from out of which it flashed its ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various
... himself, all his anger passing away like a breath from the windowpane, at the thought that perhaps his trusty right-hand man was in some danger of his life. So cautiously he made his way through the thickets whence the voices came, and, pushing aside the leaves, peeped into the little open space where the ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle
... sight, moreover, you set him down either for the gentleman by birth fallen a victim to some degrading habit, or for the man of small independent means whose expenses are calculated to such a nicety that the breakage of a windowpane, a rent in a coat, or a visit from the philanthropic pest who asks you for subscriptions to a charity, absorbs the whole of a month's little surplus of pocket-money. If you had seen him that afternoon, you would have wondered how that grotesque face came to ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac


Words linked to "Windowpane" :   Scophthalmus, pane of glass, genus Scophthalmus, window, Scophthalmus aquosus, lefteye flounder, pane


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