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:
“And long shall timorous fancy see
The painted chief, and pointed spear,
And Reasons self shall bow the knee
To shadows and delusions here.”
—Philip Freneau (17521832)
“I remember, I remember,
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn.”
—Thomas Hood (17991845)