at/in front of/in the bay window

Things hang in the windows, and a cat can sit in a bay window, but people (except perhaps very small children) can't sit in a bay window.

If you stand at the window, it implies you are looking out. Otherwise, say "by" or "in front of" or "near."

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In the UK large bay windows are quite common (particularly in Victorian properties) and people will often put furniture in them so you could sit in the bay window. (GG I found one of those houses you were asking about the other day!) You can see this property has a large bay window on the ground floor (even with a cute little balcony bit balancing on top of it) and below is an example of someone u

Maybe this is a terminology difference. A bay window, as I think of them, aren't rooms, even very small ones. They are like the picture above. (Not Nona's - the one that in the kitchen.)

Although I'm not sure of the difference between a bay window and a bow window, so maybe I'm thinking of only bow windows, and I'm just plain wrong about a bay window!

And in Nona's picture, it lo

We would also call the little one a bay window (but people would normally expect one of the larger ones. I can remember my mum sneering 'that's not a proper bay window' at one when I was a kid). We don't use the term 'bow' window. It could well be another American/British difference.

A bay window is not the size of an entire room - it is more like having a curved-out end to a room (or par