What is another word for casements?

Pronunciation: [kˈe͡ɪsmənts] (IPA)

The word "casements" refers to a type of window that opens on hinges along one side. Synonyms for casements include sash windows, sliding windows, and awning windows. Sash windows are similar to casement windows, but instead of opening on a hinge, they slide up and down. Sliding windows, as the name suggests, slide to the side to open. Awning windows are hinged at the top and open outward, creating a sloping roof-like effect. Other synonyms for casements include pivot windows, hopper windows, and jalousie windows. Pivot windows have a central pivot point that allows them to rotate inwards or outwards, while hopper windows open inward like a casement window, but along the top edge. Jalousie windows have multiple horizontal slats that open and close like shutters.

Usage examples for Casements

This front of their house would look lovely with its casements and deep eaves painted white instead of gray; and if bright green shutters could at some time or other be added to the windows, one might expect artists to stop and make sketches of the most attractive homestead in Hampshire.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Some of the broken flagstones of the path wanted replacing by sound ones; the orchard trees were full of dead wood; and the door and casements of the house sadly needed painting.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Then lightly I crossed a threshold Where the casements showed the sun And I entered an unknown room,- And my heart went cold, For about me stood that Chamber of Pain I had thought to see no more!
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer

Famous quotes with Casements

  • It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ..My work requires it – but I myself have no need or use for it – Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative – I think all chrysalises do – all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion –resurrection – the establishment of the entity. But now I’ve come up tot the outside of my casements.
    Marsden Hartley
  • Half the campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, half by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Benton had been endowed with one to begin with, and had smiled and sweated and and spoken for the other. A visitor looked under black beams, through leaded casements (past apple boughs, past box, past chairs like bath-tubs on broomsticks) to a lawn ornamented with one of the statues of David Smith; in the months since the figure had been put in its place a shrike had deserted for it a neighboring thorn tree, and an archer had skinned her leg against its farthest spike. On the table in the President’s waiting-room there were copies of , the , and a small magazine—a little magazine—that had no name. One walked by a mahogany hat-rack, glanced at the coat of arms on an umbrella-stand, and brushed with one’s sleeve something that gave a ghostly tinkle—four or five black and orange ellipsoids, set on grey wires, trembled in the faint breeze of the air-conditioning unit: a mobile. A cloud passed over the sun, and there came trailing from the gymnasium, in maillots and blue jeans, a melancholy procession, four dancers helping to the infirmary a friend who had dislocated her shoulder in the final variation of .
    Randall Jarrell
  • Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.
    Amit Chaudhuri

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