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Definition lunette

Etymology

Borrowed from French lunette, diminutive of lune (“moon”).

Noun

lunette (plural lunettes)

1. (architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape. [from 17th c.]
2. (architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door. [from 18th c.]
3. (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.]
4. A type of flattened glass used in watch-making. [from 19th c.]
5. The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed. [from 19th c.]
6. (geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia. [from 20th c.]
7. (farriery) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
8. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
9. An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
10. (in the plural) See lunettes.

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