bay window

English

Bay windows

Etymology

From Middle English baywyndow, baywyndowe, bay-windowe, equivalent to bay +‎ window where bay refers to an opening between columns.

Noun

bay window (plural bay windows)

1. (architecture) A window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
2. (figuratively) A protruding belly.
   • 1948, Godfrey Poage, What You Ought to Know Before Marriage‎^[1], St. Louis: The Queen’s Work, page 12:

     Marriages that are based only on sex appeal generally fizzle out as soon as he gets a bay window and her figure becomes a bit lumpish.

   • 1982, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending, McClelland & Stewart, published 2004, →ISBN, page 126:

     Bert came hustling up, bumping his way through the kids with his bay window.

Synonyms

• (protruding belly): See also Thesaurus:paunch.

Translations

type of window

• Bulgarian: еркерен прозорец m (erkeren prozorec)
• Catalan: finestral (ca)
• Danish: karnap c, karnapvindue n
• Finnish: erkkeri-ikkuna, erkkeri (fi)
• French: baie vitrée (fr)
• German: Erker (de), Erkerfenster (de) n
• Ladino:

  Latin: djumba f

• Occitan: baia veirada, fenestral
• Polish: wykusz (pl) m
• Russian: э́ркер (ru) m (érker)
• Scottish Gaelic: uinneag cearcaill f
• Spanish: ventana de bahía f, ventana saliente f
• Swedish: burspråk (sv) n
• Turkish: cumba (tr)

protruding belly

• Finnish: pömppömaha