rose window

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Rowan LeCompte, a Baltimore-born artisan, created more than three dozen windows for the cathedral, including the west rose window, which depicts the creation of Earth as an explosive abstraction of color and light.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

The fugitives entered and left the attic through a rose window, usually under the cover of darkness.

From Reuters • May 4, 2022

The rose window, he whispers, has a Star of David.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2016

Its visual gags, one involving a rose window, are more clever than that.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2015

The masons put together the pieces of the rose window and installed the tympanums and voussoirs over the doors.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay