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• n  a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
• n  a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it

• During a bank robbery in "The Bell Boy" he vaults through a teller window and over a transom, effortlessly trapezing to kick the robbers.
• Meanwhile, arriving over the Internet transom, rough and insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off the streets in Tehran, shaky videos .
• He was desperately trying to stay on top of the flood of data pouring in over the transom to make sure he wasn't going off on a crazy tangent.

• transom window
• fanlight
• traverse

News & Articles

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• One Half of AndrewAndrew Cares About the New Citi Bike Program
  AndrewAndrew (PatrickMcMullan) Last Wednesday night, the Transom found ourselves schmoozing with an intimate crowd at the Paley Center after the Peggy Siegal screening of the Morton Downey Jr. documentary, Evocateur . It was an eclectic mix of media personalities: Dan Abrams , Regis Philbin , Dick Cavett , Gloria Allred , Donny Deutsch and Richard Bey (whom we had at first confused for Jay ...
  June 11, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Alan Rosenberg in Variety
  The resolution was horribly written, and we were blindsided,Rosenberg said. "They slipped it under the transom. You don't trash a man's reputation like that."
• David Lynch in Reuters India
  In the rabbit scene there is an idea and that tells you that the room is kind of green-blue and that it has a couch and a radiator and a transom,Lynch said, trying to explain an image in the movie that has many critics baffled.
• Emma Thompson in Malaysia Star
  I didn't know that when the script came over the transom,says Thompson, who shows little concern for the state of her skirt or propriety when stretching out on her hotel sofa. "All I knew is that after I had read five pages, I called my...