clerestory

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(plural clerestories) (architecture) the upper part of a wall in a large church, with a row of windows in it, above the level of the lower roofs

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clerestoryEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus clerestoryEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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