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double altar

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noun

  1. an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.

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And impulsively she abased herself, kneeling at his feet as at the great double altar of some dark new faith.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

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