Other forms: dormers
A dormer is a small window that sticks out from a sloping roof. A dormer window, add a dormer, the dormer at the front.
It turns an unusable attic into a room by giving headroom and light where the roof would otherwise slope to nothing. The name is from the French for a sleeping room, since attics were bedrooms.
1noundormerA small window that sticks out from a sloping roof.
“From the dormer at the top of the house, she could see over the rooftops to the sea.”
dormer is a window.
Middle French dormoir means a sleeping room, from dormir, to sleep.
Middle French
dormoir — sleeping room
English, today
dormer
Built from
From Middle French dormoir (“sleeping room”), from dormir (“to sleep”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA