oeil de boeuf

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   a circular or oval window; 17th or 18th century French architecture

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Questions about oeil de boeuf

What does oeil de boeuf mean?

oeil de boeuf means "a circular or oval window; 17th or 18th century French architecture".

Is oeil de boeuf a common word?

oeil de boeuf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.