dormer
Other forms: dormers
Almost like a picture in a pop-up book, a dormer is a peaked extension, with a window, that rises up from the roof of a house. The word dormer often refers to the window itself.
A dormer, with roots in the French dormir (“to sleep”), often extends from an upstairs bedroom. The word has a sense of old-fashioned charm about it. Though you may occasionally still see a face peeking out from a dormer, the word brings to mind old stories such as the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, “The Snow Queen”: “They each had a little dormer window, and one only had to step over the gutter to get from one house to the other.”
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a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical windowsynonyms: dormer windowtype of:windowa framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
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