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A window set vertically into a small gable projecting from a sloping roof.
The gable holding such a window.

[Obsolete French dormeor, sleeping room, from dormir, to sleep. See dormant.]

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Real Estate Dictionary: Dormer

1. A window projecting through a sloping roof (single dormer).

2. The roofed structure containing such a window (shed dormer).
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Food and Nutrition: dormers

Victorian; chopped cooked lamb mixed with rice and suet, rolled into sausage shapes, coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: dormer

Window set vertically in a structure that projects from a sloping roof. It often illuminates a bedroom. In the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods, elaborate masonry dormers were designed. Dormers were used along with the mansard roof to defy a Parisian law limiting buildings to six stories; the seventh story was called a garret (or attic) and was made habitable by the dormer. See also gable.

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Veterinary Dictionary: Dormer

South African dual-purpose sheep with fleece of 22 to 24 micron fiber diameter. Produced by crossing Merino and Dorset Horn breeds.

Wikipedia: dormer

For people named Dormer, see Dormer (surname).

A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.

Often conflated with the term 'dormer', a dormer window is a window set into the dormer. Like skylights, dormer windows are a source of light and ventilation for top floors, but unlike skylights they increase the amount of headroom in the room and allow for more usable space.

Types

The main types of dormer are:

Gable fronted dormer: the front of the dormer rises to a point at the ridge of the dormer roof. Also known as a dog-house dormer.
Hipped roof dormer: the roof slopes back from front of structure to a point farther back.
Flat roof dormer: the roof of the dormer is flat.
Shed dormer: Often used in gable-roofed homes, a shed dormer has a single-planed roof, pitched at a shallower angle than the main roof.

In contrast to the above “roof dormers”, another type of dormer locates the window flush with the wall plane above, or more often through, the cornice line. This is the wall dormer.

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		Food and Nutrition. A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2005 by A. E. Bender and D. A. Bender. All rights reserved. Read more
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		Veterinary Dictionary. The Veterinary Dictionary. Copyright © 2007 by Elsevier. All rights reserved. Read more
		Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Dormer". Read more
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