I'm pretty sure we only called them a window and just made a point of laughing at the Germans.
The thing I've always wondered is how many times German people must have asked until we decided to just go with vasistas, and why the fuck they only had questions about these stupid windows. To me it's like they were all walking around and going "oh croissants nice hmm Eiffel Tower heh ... OH MEIN GOTT EIN FENSTER!!! Zat is so egzotic!"
In German, they're called "Kämpferfenster", which translates to "fighter window".
This indeed is less amazing if you know that the last stone put on top of the left and right door framing is called "Kämpfer".
the french didn't have a word for it before the germans asked?
The thing I've always wondered is how many times German people must have asked until we decided to just go with vasistas, and why the fuck they only had questions about these stupid windows. To me it's like they were all walking around and going "oh croissants nice hmm Eiffel Tower heh ... OH MEIN GOTT EIN FENSTER!!! Zat is so egzotic!"
This indeed is less amazing if you know that the last stone put on top of the left and right door framing is called "Kämpfer".