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LUNETTE (French diminutive of lune,
carrera lentes de sol, moon)
, a crescent-shaped,
CARRERA GAFAS THOR, semi-circular object
. The term is particularly applied in architecture to a circular opening at the intersection of vaulting by a smaller vault, as in a ceiling for the entrance of light or in the lower stories of towers for the passage of bells
. It is also used of a panel space of semi-circular shape, filled by a fresco or other decorative treatment
. In fortification a " lunette " was originally an earthwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion standing by itself without curtains on either side
. The gorge was generally open
.
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