clerestory

Definitions

The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.

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Examples

“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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