Obs. Also 5 fenestralle, 6 fenestrall. [a. OF. fenestral, f. fenestre: see FENESTER.] A window-frame or lattice, often fitted with cloth or paper as a substitute for crystal or glass; a window. Rarely of the filling in of the frame: A window-pane.
[1291. Accts. Exors. Q. Eleanor, in Househ. Exps. (Roxb.), 135. Pro canabo ad fenestrallas … iij d.]
1399. Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 129. Et in j parva serura emp. pro j fenestrall infra capellam Beatæ Mariæ, 21/2d.
1430. Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, II. xi.
| All the windowes and eche fenestrall | |
| Wrought were of beryle & of cleare crystall. | |
| Ibid. (c. 1430), Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 203. | |
| To telle what shuld hire baggys been, | |
| Whoos fenestralle were hard to glase, | |
| What she hath on hire hood of green. |
1519. Horman, Vulg., 242. Paper or lyn clothe straked a crosse with losyngz: make fenestrals in stede of glasen wyndowes.
1523. Skelton, Garl. Laurel, 1387. The fenestrall, Glittryng and glistryng and gloriously glasid.
1530. Palsgr., 219/2. Fenestrall, chassis de toille, ou de paupier.
[1851. Turner, Dom. Archit., II. i. 13. The windows were usually fitted with … lattices or fenestrals.]
transf. c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. xlii. (1869), 92. Thou shuldest not weene that the soule haue neede of these eyen and these glasses For bifore and bihynde with oute bodilych fenestralle he seeth his gostlich good.
