lunettes

noun

Meaning

A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
An image or other representation of a crescent moon.
(fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
A particular kind of spectacles/glasses, consisting of two circles lenses connected by a half-circle bridge over the nose.

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