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clerestory

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"High window row"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈklɪəɹ.stɔːɹi/Part of speech nounSorted ceelorrstyStarts with CEnds with Y1 clues
1C2L3E4R5E6S7T8O9R10Y

Definitions

  1. part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light

Word origin

From Middle English clerestory, from clere (“clear: light, lighted”) + story (“storey/story: level of a building”).

Used in a sentence

  • Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery.
  • On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
  • The cars built before 1913 had clerestory roofs, after the American style, and also were provided with gates and end vestibule platforms requiring gatemen.

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