witch window

短语

词形变化

witch windows 复数 witch windows

释义与例句

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    A window placed diagonally, with its long edge parallel to the roof, in the gable-end wall of a house (chiefly in Vermont in the United States), where a window oriented vertically or horizontally would not fit.

词源

From the (probably unserious) suggestion that witches could not fly through them.

来源：wiktionary