Definitions for clerestory

clerestory clere·sto·ry

Spelling: [kleer-stawr-ee, -stohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈklɪərˌstɔr i, -ˌstoʊr i/

Clerestory is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 516 anagrams from letters in clerestory (ceelorrsty).

Definitions for clerestory

noun

  1. Architecture. a portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having windows admitting daylight to the interior.
  2. a raised construction, as on the roof of a railroad car, having windows or slits for admitting light or air.

Origin of clerestory

1375-1425; late Middle English, equivalent to clere clear + story story2

Examples for clerestory

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

The clerestory windows are partly concealed by the vaulting.

The organ gallery gets a strong white light from a row of long windows in the clerestory, which have not even coloured glass.

The chancel and clerestory have been rebuilt recently in good taste.

It has a nave with aisles, chancel with aisles, clerestory, and a tower with five bells.

It is in the form of a circular apse, and has a triforium and clerestory.

The clerestory was built about 1200 by Peter, the third Prior.

The clerestory is Perpendicular, also the windows in the north aisle.

As far up as the clerestory every wall was frescoed, and every timber of the roof was gilded.

The clerestory and roof of the chancel are the work of Bishop Goldwell.

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