"windore" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: windores [plural]
Etymology: A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door. Head templates: {{en-noun}} windore (plural windores)
  1. Obsolete form of window. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: window
    Sense id: en-windore-en-noun-N8utxUNx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers",
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