noun A small, often fan-shaped window above a door, sometimes hinged so it can open.
- It turned out to be a big gloomy pile with ivy and peeling walls and a smashed fanlight over the door, the kind of place where you picture a mad stepdaughter locked up in the attic.
— John Banville, The Newton Letter (1982)
- This street is Summer. Faces of brick run together to make a single block-long face. The house numbers are set in fanlights of stained glass above the doors.
— John Updike, Rabbit (1960)
- Limpet was out, but with a deal of struggling he managed to screw himself through the fanlight, removing in that process the dust of many ages.
— Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia (1913)
