A
fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with
glazing bars or
tracery sets radiating out like an open
fan, It is placed over another window or a doorway. and is sometimes hinged to a
transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a
sunburst. It is also called a "sunburst light".
A chiefly British use of the word is to mean "transom".
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