lunette

1. A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.

   Lünette

   oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault

2. A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.

   Lünette

3. A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.

4. A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.

   Lunula

5. A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.

6. The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.

7. A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.

8. A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.

9. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

10. An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

11. (in the plural)See lunettes.

12. (obsolete)An image or other representation of a crescent moon.

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