[n. of action f. L. fenestrāre: see FENESTRATE v.]
1. The arrangement of windows in a building.
1846. Civ. Eng. & Archit. Jrnl., IX. 293. The fenestration of Soane’s building was praiseworthy.
1879. Sir G. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 159. I see no difference of principle in the fenestration of the Early French and the Early English Pointed styles: in both the principle was the decoration and combination of single lights.
2. Anat. The process of becoming perforated; the formation of small holes. b. The condition of being fenestrated or perforated.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 150. Reduced by extreme fenestration to mere series of filaments.
1881. St. George Jackson Mivart, The Cat, 329. Fenestration—denoting that a solid structure has dissolved itself at one spot or more, so as to give rise to an aperture perforating it.
