"lunette" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /luːˈnɛt/ [UK], /ljuːˈnɛt/ [UK], /luːˈnɛt/ [US] Audio: En-us-lunette.ogg [US] Forms: lunettes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛt Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French lunette, diminutive of lune (“moon”). Etymology templates: {{ubor|en|fr|lunette}} Unadapted borrowing from French lunette, {{m|fr|lune||moon}} lune (“moon”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} lunette (plural lunettes)
  1. (architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape. Categories (topical): Architectural elements Translations (small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape): lunetti (Finnish), Lünette [feminine] (German), luneta [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-lYYJlk2n Topics: architecture Disambiguation of 'small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape': 73 5 4 1 5 1 3 5 2 0 0 1
  2. (architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door. Categories (topical): Architectural elements Translations (crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door): luneta (Czech), lunetti (Finnish), Lünette [feminine] (German), luneta [feminine] (Polish), luneta [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-bRJ0N3Uo Topics: architecture Disambiguation of 'crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door': 5 65 5 3 7 1 3 8 1 0 2 1
  3. (obsolete) An image or other representation of a crescent moon. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-YoiYJ5ix Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 8 18 16 8 1 6 16 7 1 16 1
  4. (fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks. Translations (field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge): lunetti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-ANY3QlME Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 8 18 16 8 1 6 16 7 1 16 1 Topics: fortifications, government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge': 1 3 7 64 3 1 3 7 4 1 6 1
  5. (Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. Categories (topical): Christianity Translations (Christianity: crescent-shaped clip for holding the host upright): Lunula [feminine] (German), luneta [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-QnTe~W72 Topics: Christianity Disambiguation of 'Christianity: crescent-shaped clip for holding the host upright': 7 12 11 6 36 1 2 14 3 1 3 5
  6. A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-KrsPdbup
  7. The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-3srYa7gy
  8. (geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia. Categories (topical): Geology
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-NRBMZVhd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 8 18 16 8 1 6 16 7 1 16 1 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
  9. (farriery) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge. Categories (lifeform): Farriery
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-X3aBKj2- Topics: farriery, hobbies, horses, lifestyle, pets, sports
  10. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-Dsn6rhl8
  11. An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-eb9Xe8D5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 8 18 16 8 1 6 16 7 1 16 1
  12. (in the plural) See lunettes. Tags: in-plural
    Sense id: en-lunette-en-noun-BRcHseFq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: meniscus

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from French lunette, diminutive of lune (“moon”).",
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      "word": "meniscus"
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        {
          "ref": "1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 820",
          "text": "Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak.",
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        }
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        "A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape."
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        ],
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      ],
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        "(architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape."
      ],
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      ]
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        "en:Architectural elements"
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        {
          "ref": "1930, Offner, Steinweg et al., A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, p. 49",
          "text": "The decoration of a lunette discovered in the Duomo of Pistoia in the 1950s, which represents Christ blessing and Saints James and John, all bust-length, constitutes a more remarkable and stylistically more advanced approach to painting."
        }
      ],
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        "A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door."
      ],
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        [
          "architecture",
          "architecture"
        ],
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        ],
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          "void",
          "void"
        ],
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          "window"
        ],
        [
          "door",
          "door"
        ]
      ],
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        "(architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door."
      ],
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        "architecture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1822, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences, volume 3, page 245",
          "text": "The lesser portions of the tablet has over this Mithras, a lunette or symbol of the moon, who, according to Porphyry's comment, is the queen of generation and as such was denominated by the ancients both a bee and a bull [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An image or other representation of a crescent moon."
      ],
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          "crescent moon",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete) An image or other representation of a crescent moon."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1863, Alexander William Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea, volume VII, page 185",
          "text": "This Lunette, as we have seen, was confronted, and even in siege-form \"approached\", by a part of Canrobert's army [...].",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 21",
          "text": "In mid-December [...], the French succeeded in storming the half-ruined outwork of the St Laurent lunette and advancing to a position immediately beneath the walls with their breaching batteries.",
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        }
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        "A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks."
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        ],
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          "parallel",
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        "(fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks."
      ],
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        "fortifications",
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Christianity"
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        {
          "ref": "2001, David Philippart, Basket, Basin, Plate, and Cup: Vessels in the Liturgy, page 33",
          "text": "On those occasions when lunettes, custodia and monstrances are used, the sacristan needs to be sure that the lunette fits into the given monstrance, that the host fits into the lunette, and that the host is put out before Mass for consecration.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance."
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        "(Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance."
      ],
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        "Christianity"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "2008, FJ Garrard, Watch Repairing, Cleaning and Adjusting: A Practical Handbook, page 157",
          "text": "Lunette and double lunette glasses are generally sized in quarters; crystals and thin flat lunettes for hunters in eighths.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A type of flattened glass used in watch-making."
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 92",
          "text": "some \"future\" events may be likelier than others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has already closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.",
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      ]
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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          "ref": "2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 403",
          "text": "Sticking out of a crescent-shaped sand ridge of a type known as a lunette were some human bones.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, John K Warren, Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons, page 31",
          "text": "These lunettes are relicts of a Late Pleistocene deflationary period, when the lacustrine hydrology changed from perennial water-filled lakes to desiccated mudflats.",
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        }
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        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge."
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          "farriery"
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        "horses",
        "lifestyle",
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        "sports"
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        "See lunettes."
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        "(in the plural) See lunettes."
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ljuːˈnɛt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/luːˈnɛt/",
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        "US"
      ]
    },
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    },
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape",
      "word": "lunetti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lünette"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luneta"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door",
      "word": "luneta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door",
      "word": "lunetti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lünette"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luneta"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luneta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge",
      "word": "lunetti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Christianity: crescent-shaped clip for holding the host upright",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lunula"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Christianity: crescent-shaped clip for holding the host upright",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luneta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lunette"
}

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