windowsill
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See also: window sill
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[edit]windowsill (plural windowsills)
- (architecture) The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.
- 1991, Bob Gordon, Orchid Seedling Care: With Special Emphasis on Water Quality:
- An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel.
- 2001, Christopher Fowler, The Devil in Me, page 12:
- You could tell summer was coming because people were drinking on the street, searching for spaces on the windowsills of the pub to balance their beerglasses.
- 2015, Nathan Williams, The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 277:
- north-facing rooms: These rooms receive the least light if you live up north, so choose plants that can endure low-light conditions and keep them directly on the windowsill. Some suggestions include pothos, philodendrons, arrowheads, Chinese evergreens, peace lilies and zamioculcas (or “ZZ”).
- 2017, Irina Maltseva, Aleksandr Elokhov, Konstantin Tkachuk, Kseniia Maltceva, “Design without thermal bridges”, in 9th International Scientific Conference Building Defects:
- The most unreliable joints are in connections between the wall with ceilings and roofing, esconson of windows, places under the windowsills, exits to the balcony or veranda...
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[edit]the horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame
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