jube
Americannoun
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a screen with an upper platform, separating the choir of a church from the nave and often supporting a rood.
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a rood loft.
noun
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a gallery or loft over the rood screen in a church or cathedral
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another name for rood screen
noun
Etymology
Origin of jube
1715–25; < Latin jubē, first word of prayer beginning Jubē, Domine, benedicere consent, O Lord, to bless; said at or near this screen
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The jube, by Mengelberg of Utrecht, is distinctly good.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Our people lie under one of the great marble slabs before the jube, some of the memorial brass balusters of which are engraved with their names and the dates of their decease.
From Imaginary Portraits by Walter Pater
The latter, being at Rome, heard this sentence read from the writings of the former: “Da quod jubes, et jube quod vis”—Give what thou commandest, and command what thou willest.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
This jube, glittering with gold, was placed about one hundred and fifty feet from the portal.
From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
Among the other decorative features are an elaborately conceived "tree of Jesse," an unusually massive rood-loft or jube, and a high-altar of much magnificence.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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