casement

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casement^¹

noun casements

A window sash that is hinged on the side. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.
A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.

Casement^²

Where it comes from

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Asmuint (“son of Asmund”), a personal name derived from Old Norse Asmundr, which is composed by the elements áss (“god”) + mundr (“protection”).

proper noun Casements

A surname from Irish.

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noun window sash hinged on the side

Español	hoja de ventana
Deutsch	Fensterflügel, Drehflügel
Italiano	battente, anta, persiana

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@misc{casement_2026,
  title = {casement},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/casement},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}