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English
Etymology
From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -ed.
Adjective
windowed (not comparable)
- Fitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these?
- 1712, The Spectator, No. 276, Wednesday, January 16, 1712, Dublin: W. Wilson, 1778, Volume IV, p. 103,
- You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hyde-Park, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments
1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 12, in The Professor:I need not say that my thoughts were chiefly with her as I leaned from the lattice, and let my eye roam, now over the walks and borders of the garden, now along the many-windowed front of the house which rose white beyond the masses of foliage.
1917, Siegfried Sassoon, “Morning Glory”, in The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, page 81:Loud the happy children quire
To the golden-windowed morn;
While the lord of their desire
Sleeps below the crimson thorn.
1937, “Herat, 23 November”, in The Road to Oxiana:The walls below are bare, but for a few glazed bricks and a peculiar three-windowed bay that reminds one of a villa in Clapham.
1956, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Scots Heraldry: A Practical Handbook on the Historical Principles and Modern Application of the Art and Science, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 203:Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a castle argent, gated and windowed gules; 2nd, gules three legs armed proper, flexed and conjoined triangularly at the upper end of the thigh, garnished and spurred or; 3rd, azure, a deer's head cabossed […]
2004 March 22, Sally B. Donnelly, “Over the Really Long Haul”, in Time:Once the plane was at cruising altitude I spent the first hour or so just getting used to the surroundings—exploring the stand-up bar Singapore Airlines created at the back of the coach section, ducking into one of the two windowed rest rooms or longing for the plush seats in business class.
- a bow-windowed room
- (computing, graphical user interface) Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)
This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.
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windowed
- simple past and past participle of window