witch window

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A window placed diagonally, with its long edge parallel to the roof, in the gable-end wall of a house (chiefly in Vermont in the United States), where a window oriented vertically or horizontally would not fit.
    — At the end of the room a witch window hung at an angle in the wall. She smiled. “Witch window. How quaint.” “Vermont is famous for them.[…]"

词形变化

witch windows plural

词源

From the (probably unserious) suggestion that witches could not fly through them.
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