window-frame

Noun

1. Archaic form of window frame.
   • She sat until all around her was in darkness, until not a spray of roses which twined about the window-frames from without, was discernible. - 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter III, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of...
   • Thoroughfares lying close by the Thames, which were wont to suffer from inundations, were raised; those which from limited breadth had caused inconvenience and bred pestilence were made wide; warehouses and dwellings of...
   • Some experts claim that it is a bad practice in stone buildings to build the window-frames in with the stone masonry of the wall, and that the openings should be carefully made, the stone wall being brought to a proper...