windowpane
Noun
Meaning
See Pane, n., (3) b.
A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane.
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.
Good writing is like a windowpane.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.