† ˈfenester Obs.
Forms: 3–5 fenestre, 6 fenester.
[a. OF. fenestre (Fr. fenêtre):—L. fenestra: see next.]
A window.
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 229/337 Þo cam þare-in a fuyri arewe at a fenestre a-non. a 1300 Land Cokayne 114 in E.E.P. (1862) 159 All þe fenestres þat beþ of glasse. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 13 Then was faith in a fenestre and cryde. a 1400 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 362 By leue of þe baylyues..nyme þe dores & þe fenestres. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 370/4 Thyse thre fenestres or wyndowes betokene clerely the fader the sone and the holy ghoost. 1510–20 Compl. too late maryed (1862) 7 Breke I dyd dores and fenesters. 1513 Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 169 Cleir fenystaris of glas. 1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 605 In the Fenestres and wyndowes were images resemblynge men of warre. |