Obs. or dial. Also 6 wyndoor(e, 7–9 windoor, windor, 8 windeoor, vindore. [Altered form of WINDOW sb. by association with DOOR sb.: cf. WIND-DOOR.] A window.

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1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 245 b. The other without any more bones cast me the byrde … out at the wyndoore.

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 75. At thee wyndoors, where moonshyne brimlye dyd enter.

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1605.  B. Jonson, Volpone, I. v. Neuer do’s come abroad, neuer takes ayre, But at a windore.

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1663.  Butler, Hud., I. II. 214. Knowing they were of doubtful gender, And that they came in at a Windore.

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a. 1687.  Petty, Pol. Anat. (1691), 14. Stone-wall Houses, with Chimneys, Doors, Windores, Gardens and Orchards.

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1722.  in Rutland Gloss. (1891), The North Weste windeoor.

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1771.  Smollett, Humphry Cl., III. 18 July. One Issabel, a painted harlot, that was thrown out of a vindore.

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1825.  Jennings, Obs. Dial. W. Eng., Windor, a window.

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