Brewer's: Window

(Norwegian, vindue.) A French window opens like folding doors; a sash window is in two parts, called sashes, one or both of which are made to slide up and down about half way.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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