Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dormer

Dormer , noun

[Literally, the window of a sleeping apartment. French dormir to sleep. See Dormant, a. & n.]

(Architecture) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

Also: Dormer window