A bow window is a curved bay window. Bow windows are designed to create space by projecting beyond the exterior wall of a building, and to provide a wider view of the garden or street outside and typically combine four or more casement windows, which join together to form an arch.
Bow windows first appeared in the eighteenth century in the United Kingdom, (and in the Federal period in the United States).
White's Club, in St. James's Street, London features a famous bow window.
Famous quotes containing the words bow and/or window:
“...I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 3:14-15.
“‘Who is it that this dark night
Underneath my window plaineth?’”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)