Glossary · B
Bay window
Also called bay windows, canted bay
A window projecting from the face of a wall, rising from the ground, square, canted (with angled sides) or curved; the Victorian house’s favourite way of bringing light and a view into the front room.
See also: Oriel
Rules that use the word
The bay window. Let the principal room of the front stand out in a bay window, canted or square, under its own gable: more light, a view along the street as well as across it, and a front that shows where the best room is.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The House in England and America.
Nearby in the glossary
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