Leadlights or
leaded lights are decorative windows made of small sections of glass supported in
lead cames. The technique of creating windows using glass and lead came is discussed at
came glasswork. The term
leadlight could be used to describe all windows in which the glass is supported by lead, but traditionally, a distinction is made between
stained glass windows and
leadlights, the former being associated with the ornate windows of churches and other such works of architecture and the latter with the windows of vernacular commercial and domestic architecture and defined by its simplicity.