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A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
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A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
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An image or other representation of a crescent moon.
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(fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
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A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
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A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
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The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
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A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
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A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
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A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
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An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
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(in the plural) See lunettes.