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The 134-square foot living/dining area has a pair of visual attractions: The upper half of the shared interior wall is exposed brick, and the room itself flows toward a large square window without muntins that provides a major source of natural light.—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023 The kitchen is open to the dining area, and both have glass sliders in which the muntins don’t interfere with the view.—John Ellement, Boston.com Real Estate, 22 Jan. 2020 The new home’s dormers, vertical window muntins, and three-paneled interior doors hark back to Arts and Crafts cottages built in the Poconos in the early 1900s.—Sally A. Downey, Philly.com, 12 June 2018 This window is flanked by two rectangular windows with muntins that form elegant hexagonal shapes.—Joan Walden, courant.com, 19 Jan. 2018 Window muntin paint: Palladian Blue (HC-144); benjaminmoore.com.—Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2013
Word History
Etymology
alteration of montant vertical dividing bar, from French, from present participle of monter to rise — more at mount
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