Definitions for lunettes

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lunettes lu·nette

Spelling: [loo-net]

IPA: /luˈnɛt/

Lunettes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in lunettes (eelnsttu).

Definitions for lunettes

noun

1. any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.
2. Architecture. (in the plane of a wall) an area enframed by an arch or vault.
3. a painting, sculpture, or window filling such an area.
4. Fortification. a work consisting of a salient angle with two flanks and an open gorge.
5. Ordnance. a towing ring in the trail plate of a towed vehicle, as a gun carriage.
6. Ecclesiastical. Luna (def 3).

Origin of lunettes

1570-80; French, diminutive of lune moon Latin lūna; see -ette

Examples for lunettes

These soon silenced its guns, and the lunette was abandoned by the garrison.

It is figured in the lunette of the vault in the accompanying engraving.

Only on Sans Quartier's cabbage-patch the lunette now stood complete.

It seems that there was a lunette over the top, containing a Pietà.

The fresco in the lunette is by Michele di Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.

The archbishop fell to the ground, as did the lunette of the monstrance.

The lunette, however, was evidently painted by the Limbourgs.

How dignified was his sense of repose, is seen in the lunette of the Ascension.

This work has a lunette which is generally, and I suppose correctly, ascribed to Gaudenzio.

The escarp of lunette 53 was successfully breached by this method.