housewindowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

housewindow (plural housewindows)

1. (rare) The window of a house.
   • 2012, Gallas, John, Fresh air ; and, The story of molecule, Carcanet Press Limited, page 163

     Neat housewindows faced the shuttling sea, to watch for Beauty in Necessity.

   • 1965, McCarthy, Cormac, The Orchard Keeper, Vintage Books, page 105

     Coming down the steep and angled path behind the tall frame houses he thought he heard a voice. He tilted back his head to see. Half out from a housewindow high up the laddered face of sootcaulked clapboards hung some creature.

   • 2009, Luce, Dianne C., Reading the world, University of South Carolina Press, page 224

     And Suttree next notices “beyond in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant and forever in some domestic vagary” with an awareness of the velocity of his own passing: “Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history” (178).

   • 1973, Scott, John Anthony, Fanny Kemble's America, Crowell, page 36

     They had, thought Fanny, "a desolate, untidy, untended look; the gates broken, the fences carelessly put up, or ill-repaired; the farming utensils skittishly scattered about a littered yard . . . ; housewindows broken, and stuffed with paper or clothes."

   • 1980, Theoretical developments in marketing, American Marketing Association, page 164

     Less creative consumers, for example, may view a product such as Windex as useful only for cleaning housewindows; […]