apsidiole

[ ap-sid-ee-ohl ]

noun
  1. a small apse, especially one attached to a larger apse or a transept.

Origin of apsidiole

1
1885–90; <French absidiole, equivalent to absideapsis (<Medieval Latin absid-, stem of absis) + -i--i- + -ole-ole1

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