windore
Obsolete form of window.
Noun
- Obsolete form of window.
- 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...
Origin
A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.