▪ I. † feˈnestral, n. Obs.
Also 5 fenestralle, 6 fenestrall.
[a. OF. fenestral, f. fenestre: see fenester.]
A window-frame or lattice, often fitted with cloth or paper as a substitute for crystal or glass; a window. Rarely of the filling in of the frame: A window-pane.
| [1291 Accts. Exors. Q. Eleanor in Househ. Exps. (Roxb.) 135 Pro canabo ad fenestrallas..iij d.] 1399 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 129 Et in j parva serura emp. pro j fenestrall infra capellam Beatæ Mariæ, 2½d. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, All the windowes and eche fenestrall Wrought were of beryle & of cleare crystall. c 1430 ― Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 203 To telle what shuld hire baggys been, Whoos fenestralle were hard to glase. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 242 Paper or lyn clothe straked a crosse with losyngz: make fenestrals in stede of glasen wyndowes. 1523 Skelton Garl. Laurel 1387 The fenestrall, Glittryng and glistryng and gloriously glasid. 1530 Palsgr. 219/2 Fenestrall, chassis de toille, ou de paupier. [1851 Turner Dom. Archit. II. i. 13 The windows were usually fitted with..lattices or fenestrals.] |
| transf. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xlii. (1869) 92 Thou shuldest not weene that the soule haue neede of these eyen..For bifore and bihynde, with oute bodelych fenestralle, he seeth his gostlich good. |
▪ II. fenestral, a.
(fɪˈnɛstral)
[ad. L. fenestrāl-is, f. fenestra; see fenestra.]
1. Of or pertaining to a window.
| 1674–81 in Blount Glossogr. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 699 Collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions. 1696–9 Bp. W. Nicolson Eng. Hist. Libr. ii. 145 Anth. Wood Collected the..Fenestral Inscriptions..in the County of Oxford. 1776 R. Graves Euphrosyne i. iv, On almost every occasion of human life..Fenestral, Parietal, and what not. |
2. Anat. and Surg. ‘Having small openings like windows’ (Wagstaffe). fenestral bandage, ‘a bandage, compress, or plaster with small perforations or openings to facilitate discharge’ (Dunglison). Cf. fenestrate v.
3. Biol. a. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a fenestra. b. Furnished with fenestræ.
| 1865 Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 156 Pseudopodia that project through the fenestral apertures. |