windowed, ppl. a.
(ˈwɪndəʊd)
[f. window n. + -ed2, partly after OF. fenestré.]
1. Furnished with or having windows. Also with prefixed word in comb.
| c 1483 Caxton Dialogues 6 The hous well ordeyned Ought to be well wyndowed Of diverse wyndowes. 1611 Cotgr., Fenestré, windowed, hauing windowes. 1624 Wotton Archit. 76 The whole Roome was windowed round about. 1636 Peacham Coach & Sedan A iv b, Windowed before and behind with Isen-glasse. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 276 ¶3 A strange windowed House,..which is so built that no one can look out of any of the Apartments. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 869/1 Some of the principal buildings we may reasonably suppose to have been windowed in a superior manner. 1816 Byron Ch. Har. iii. xxiii, Within a window'd niche of that high hall. 1819 Crabbe T. of Hall xvii. 131 She built a room all window'd to the west. 1866 Geo. Eliot F. Holt iii, Tall-windowed brick houses. 1881 World 28 Dec., The disproportioned, ill-windowed, and pretentious palace at Kensington. 1883 Standard 3 Aug. 5/7 The windowed side of the new building. |
2. Having decorative openings (see window n. 3).
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 366/1 A crowne of gold wyndowed. 1849 Rock Ch. Fathers II. 246 They had, like Chaucer's layman parish-clerk, black windowed shoes, which let the scarlet stockings be seen from beneath. 1873 Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 69 Palace-panes Pinholed athwart their windowed filagree By twinklings sobered from the sun outside. |
3. Full of holes. (In later use echoing Shakes.)
| 1605 Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 31 Your lop'd, and window'd raggednesse. 1755 Hay Epigr. Martial iii. xxxviii, In window'd hose, and garments twice convey'd. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 6 Oct. 2/1 When we sat with sadly windowed clothes on the not very extensive summit of the Crystallino. |
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Add: 4. Of the metal thread incorporated in some banknotes: having dash-like sections exposed to view on one side of the note alternating with sections fully embedded in the paper; also applied to a note, style, etc. incorporating such a thread.
| 1984 Guardian 15 Nov. 4 (in figure) ‘Windowed’ security thread. 1988 New Scientist 3 Dec. 84/3 It is also the only means of incorporating security threads in the ‘windowed’ form which has become a feature of Bank of England {pstlg}20 and {pstlg}10 notes in recent years. 1990 Independent 6 June 3/2 A silver-coloured windowed thread runs through the note in current {pstlg}10, {pstlg}20 and {pstlg}50 notes. 1990 Times 15 Dec. 42/6 After November 1984 this is a windowed thread looking like silver dashes; on old notes it was embedded in the paper and was thinner. |