windore

English

Etymology

A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.

Noun

windore (plural windores)

1. Obsolete form of window.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto 2:

     Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers

References

• “windore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• downier