barred window

collocation in English

meaningsofbarredandwindow

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barred
adjective
uk
/bɑːd/us
/bɑːrd/
If a door is barred, a bar of wood or metal has been put across it so that it cannot ...
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window
noun
uk
/ˈwɪn.dəʊ/us
/ˈwɪn.doʊ/
a space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building or in a vehicle, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to ...
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(Definition ofbarredandwindowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The thieves had to cut through abarredwindow, remove the back door lock, force inner doors and cut open a safe.
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The right eye is in the form of abarredwindow.
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Her third floor cell had abarredwindowthat faced a flat area of jails roof.
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Thebarredwindowof the prison overlooks the sea, and is placed just above water level when the tide is low.
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Thebarredwindowopenings are under segmental arched soffits of brick and the arrangement here replicates that of the ground floor windows.
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Commodities are displayed in a large screen-covered or metalbarredwindowin front of the shop.
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Below the westernmost bay is the cellar door, with a smallbarredwindowlooking into it below the eastern bay.
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The dungeon was a room, lit by one closelybarredwindowabout 18by8in mm off the floor, with entry only through a hatch about 20in mm square in the ceiling.
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Skokes examines the layout of the cell and manages to climb up to a smallbarredwindowon the roof.
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When the jail was in use, prisoners could often be seen waving from the barred windows.
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He had two small rooms; adjoining cells with barred windows.
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The bridge's concrete abutments are hollow, each with a pair of barred windows.
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Some thirty others were accidentally locked inside the second-floor club, some attempting to escape by squeezing through barred windows.
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Theo arranged for two small roomsadjoining cells with barred windows.
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In the 1950s, the entire complex was completely rebuilt again with new concrete joints replacing the old wooden ones while new barred windows and a detached spiral staircase were added.
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Originally constructed as a store, evidence remains of the massive barred windows and catshead to the upper level.
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Once again the excruciatingly beautiful music floated through the barred windows, echoing round the brick exercise yard, losing itself in the vast prison yards.
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The previous use of the building resulted in high security measures, with barred windows meaning that in the event of a fire, escape could be compromised.
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They soon get locked up in a room beyond the marshes and is therefore trapped but sees a room with barred windows at the other side of the building.
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