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English
Etymology
A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.
Noun
windore (plural windores)
- Obsolete form of window.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. , London: J. G. for Richard Marriot, , →OCLC:Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers
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