Fortochka

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  Fortchki are small fixed panes above doors and windows to allow light 
in. In newer versions they can open but in real life they are rarely 
opened. The ones I have are octangular.
> In the U.S. we actually used to have форточки, not in apartments, but in
> cars manufactured before air conditioning became standard equipment. Until
> the mid-1960s, I guess, cars had a little triangular window on driver's
> side. We always called that the vent window. Does that work?
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Seth Graham<s.graham at ssees.ucl.ac.uk>wrote:
>

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