windore

English

Etymology

A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.

Noun

windore (plural windores)

1. Obsolete form of window.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC:

     Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers

References

• “windore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• downier