windore

English

Etymology

A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.

Noun

windore (plural windores)

  1. Obsolete form of window.
    • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
      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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 windore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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