Meaning of Casement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A window sash that is hinged on the side.
2. A surname from Irish.
3. A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ
4. A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.

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Examples

“For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.”

“Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.”

“Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw⟳ him riding slowly over the heath.”

“The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast⟳.”

“The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.”

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