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A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan,^[1] It is placed over another window or a doorway.^[2]^[3] and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst. It is also called a "sunburst light".^[4]

A chiefly British use of the word is to mean "transom".^[5]

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