casement

See also: Casement

English

open-in and open-out casement windows

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Noun

casement (plural casements)

1. A window sash that is hinged on the side.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:6–7:

     For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.

2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.^Wp
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:

     Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 229:

     Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath.

   • 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 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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.

3. (military) Occasionally seen as a usage error due to the similarity of the words: A casemate.

Hyponyms

• (window): French casement

Translations

window sash hinged on the side

• Finnish: sivusaranoitu puite
• German: Fensterflügel (de) m, Drehflügel m
• Italian: battente (it) m, anta (it) f, persiana (it) f
• Ottoman Turkish: چرچوه (çerçeve)

casement window — see casement window

casemate — see casemate

References

• “casement”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• casement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:casement windows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• can't seem, cæments, menacest