LUNETTE

Lunette

In architecture, a lunette is a half-moon shaped space, either filled with recessed masonry or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs. If a door is set within a round-headed arch, the space within the arch above the door, masonry or glass, is a lunette. If the door is a major access, and the lunette above is massive and deeply set, it may be called a tympanum.

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lunette

Noun

  1. A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
  2. A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
  3. An image or other representation of a crescent moon.
  4. A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
  5. A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
  6. A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
  7. The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
  8. A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
  9. See lunettes.


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