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Lunette

Noun

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1.NounA small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2.NounA crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door. a lunette in the Thomas Jefferson building of the US Library of Congress
3.NounAn image or other representation of a crescent moon.
4.NounA field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks. two kinds of lunette fortification
5.NounA luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
6.NounA type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
7.NounThe circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
8.NounA type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
9.NounA half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
10.NounA piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
11.NounAn iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
12.NounSee lunettes.
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