coffin window
nounEtymology
From the urban legend that coffins were slid out of the windows from upper floors.
Definitions
Synonym of witch window.
- He stuck his big shoulders out the coffin window and bellowed at them, he seized their hands impartially and bellowed to them when they were close in the same voice he used for distance.
- Beside it, in the front wall of the house, is a coffin window, an object that I have never before come across.
- There was a “coffin window” on the stairs. Since most people died at home, space was required to turn the coffin to take it downstairs—hence, a coffin window.
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