Above Door Fanlight

While it serves a similar function to provide additional light through a traditional window or door a fanlight is semi circular in shape and can through the inclusion of bars be used to fan the light out through a room.
Above door fanlight. A fanlight is a small window over a door or above another window. A fanlight is a window often semicircular or semi elliptical in shape with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. It is placed over another window or a doorway and is sometimes hinged to a transom the bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner of a sunburst it is also called a sunburst light. Fanlight definition is a semicircular window with radiating bars like the ribs of a fan that is placed over a door or window.
Fanlight definition a window over a door or another window especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse. Window a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air. Fanlight a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door. A small window over the top of a door 2.
A small window over the top of a door.