Obs. Forms: 3–5 fenestre, 6 fenester. [a. OF. fenestre (Fr. fenêtre):—L. fenestra: see next.] A window.
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 229/337. Þo cam þare-In a fuyri Arewe at a fenestre a-non.
a. 1300. Land Cokayne, 114, in E. E. P. (1862), 159. All þe fenestres þat beþ of glasse.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XXI. 13. Then was faith in a fenestre and cryde.
a. 1400. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 362. By leue of þe baylyues of þe town, nyme þe dores and þe fenestres.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 370/4. Thyse thre fenestres or wyndowes betokene clerely the fader the sone and the holy ghoost.
1510–20. Compl. too late maryed (1862), 7. Breke I dyd dores and fenesters.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 169. Cleir fenystaris of glas.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 605. In the Fenestres and wyndowes were images resemblynge men of warre redy to caste greate stones.
