luthern
See also: Luthern
English
Etymology
From French lucarne (“a dormer, dormer window, garret window”), Latin lucerna (“lamp”), from lucere (“to be light or clear”), from lux (“light”).
Noun
luthern (plural lutherns)
- (architecture) A dormer window.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for luthern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)