Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

aprire bifore

English translation:

open mullioned windows with two lights

Added to glossary by RProsser
Oct 26, 2007 15:52
16 yrs ago
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Italian term

aprire bifore

Italian to English Art/Literary Architecture
Nel 1438 Filippo Maria Visconti ordinò lavori di restauro e di abbellimento, facendo dipingere affreschi e aprire bifore.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 open mullioned windows with two lights

Proposed translations

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open mullioned windows with two lights

A 'bifora' is indeed, according to the Oxford Paravia online: "a mullioned window with two lights".

Hence, my translation above.

HTH

Lea

If you google the term 'bifora' in the images search, youwill get what it's talked about here, I suppose. I haven't tried though.

Lea
Peer comment(s):

agree Umberto Cassano : anche double lancet windows
4 mins
grazie Umberto. buon weekend
agree hossein ghalkhany
19 hrs
thank you Hossein.
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