How to pronounce “lunette”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape. [from 17th c.]
• (architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door. [from 18th c.] a lunette in the Thomas Jefferson building of the US Library of Congress
• (obsolete) An image or other representation of a crescent moon. [18th–19th c.]
• (fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks. [from 18th c.] two kinds of lunette fortification
• (Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. [from 19th c.]
• A type of flattened glass used in watch-making. [from 19th c.]
• The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed. [from 19th c.]
• (geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia. [from 20th c.]
• (farriery) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
• A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
• An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
• (in the plural) See lunettes.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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