housewindow

plural housewindows

1. rareThe window of a house.

   Neat housewindows faced the shuttling sea, to watch for Beauty in Necessity.

   2012, Gallas, John, Fresh air ; and, The story of molecule, Carcanet Press Limited, page 163

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   Coming down the steep and angled path behind the tall frame houses he thought he heard a voice. He tilted back his head to see. Half out from a housewindow high up the laddered face of sootcaulked clapboards hung some creature.

   1965, McCarthy, Cormac, The Orchard Keeper, Vintage Books, page 105

   And Suttree next notices “beyond in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant and forever in some domestic vagary” with an awareness of the velocity of his own passing: “Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history” (178).

   2009, Luce, Dianne C, Reading the world, University of South Carolina Press, page 224

   They had, thought Fanny, "a desolate, untidy, untended look; the gates broken, the fences carelessly put up, or ill-repaired; the farming utensils skittishly scattered about a littered yard . . . ; housewindows broken, and stuffed with paper or clothes."

   1973, Scott, John Anthony, Fanny Kemble's America, Crowell, page 36

   Less creative consumers, for example, may view a product such as Windex as useful only for cleaning housewindows; […]

   1980, Theoretical developments in marketing, American Marketing Association, page 164