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Webster 1913 Edition
Casement
Case′ment
,Noun.
(Arch.)
A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted.
(Poetically)
A window. A
casement
of the great chamber window. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Casement
CASEMENT
,Noun.
1.
A hollow molding, usually one sixth or one fourth of a circle.2.
A little movable window, usually within a large, made to turn and open on hinges.Definition 2024
casement
casement
English
Noun
casement (plural casements)
- A window sash that is hinged on the side and opens outward.
- A window having such sashes; a casement window.Wp
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- 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.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- 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.
- 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- (military) A casemate.
Translations
window sash hinged on the side and opening outwards
casement window — see casement window
casemate — see casemate