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infenestrate (third-person singular simple present infenestrates, present participle infenestrating, simple past and past participle infenestrated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To enter or insert into or through a window.
    • 1993, Richard Lancelyn Green, “The Speckled Band”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, page 363:
      Holmes enters through the window, and reveals that he was Peters, and Amelia was Billy. Watson also infenestrates.
    • 2015, Advocate Editorial Board, The Harvard Advocate, Editor's Note: Fall 2015:
      Fall finds The Harvard Advocate floating and spinning in good foliar form: physical injuries abound, new locks and lists are rendered irrelevant by infenestrated revelers, and those prone to suspicion let anxieties take the reigns as winter looms.
    • 2015, Randall R. Griffey et al., Thomas Hart Benton's America Today[1]:
      [] the new structure that Joseph Urban has designed for this ambitious group of midtown modernists rises strikingly with its severely blocked facade of alternating bands of patterned brick and infenestrated glass.

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