Meaning of coffin window | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of witch window.

Examples

“He stuck his big shoulders out the coffin window and bellowed at them, he seized their hands impartially and bellowed to them when they were close in the same voice he used for distance.”

“Beside it, in the front wall of the house, is a coffin window, an object that I have never before come across.”

“There was a “coffin window” on the stairs. Since most people died at home, space was required to turn the coffin to take it downstairs—hence, a coffin window.”

“Some locals also call them "coffin windows," based on a theory that they were used to slide coffins out of upper floors. Architectural historians find this equally implausible — you wouldn't carry a coffin upstairs to begin with.”

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