clerestory
noun
a portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having windows admitting daylight to the interior.
clerestoried
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a word derived from
clerestory.
Example Sentences
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Note the old material in the apex, the Perp. windows in the aisles, the clerestoried Norman nave and the Norman font.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
Its lofty clerestoried nave has an elaborately carved timber roof, and the south porch, though repaired in 1612, preserves its Norman mouldings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
The nave is clerestoried, with eight bays; most of the windows are of stained glass.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
