lunette
/luːˈnɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
noun
A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
noun
The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
Example Sentences
- "Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime."
- "Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak."
- "The decoration of a lunette discovered in the Duomo of Pistoia in the 1950s, which represents Christ blessing and Saints James and John, all bust-length, constitutes a more remarkable and stylistically more advanced approach to painting."
- "The lesser portions of the tablet has over this Mithras, a lunette or symbol of the moon, who, according to Porphyry's comment, is the queen of generation and as such was denominated by the ancients both a bee and a bull [...]."
- "This Lunette, as we have seen, was confronted, and even in siege-form "approached", by a part of Canrobert's army [...]."
- "In mid-December [...], the French succeeded in storming the half-ruined outwork of the St Laurent lunette and advancing to a position immediately beneath the walls with their breaching batteries."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /luːˈnɛt/
- British English: /luːˈnɛt/