Definitions for triforium

triforium tri·fo·ri·um

Spelling: [trahy-fawr-ee-uh m, -fohr-]
IPA: /traɪˈfɔr i əm, -ˈfoʊr-/

Triforium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in triforium (fiimorrtu).

Definitions for triforium

noun

  1. (in a church) the wall at the side of the nave, choir, or transept, corresponding to the space between the vaulting or ceiling and the roof of an aisle, often having a blind arcade or an opening in a gallery.

Origin of triforium

1695-1705; Anglo-Latin, special use of Medieval Latin triforium kind of gallery, literally, something with three openings, equivalent to Latin tri- tri- + for(is) open

Examples for triforium

The church is Romanesque and dark with a lofty clerestory but no triforium.

There is no triforium, its place being occupied with panelling.

It had no triforium, and the clerestory windows are rather large.

The triforium arches in the choir of the cathedral are all of this description.

These galleries and arcades may be regarded as the original of the triforium.

The windows of the triforium are large and divided into four compartments.

There are also some in the south-east chapel of the triforium of the choir.

There is no triforium, and the transepts do not project beyond the nave.

"I'd get up on to that passage and fix it," nodding to the triforium.

A triforium is only to be seen in the very largest churches.

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