misericord
noun
a room in a monastery set apart for those monks permitted relaxation of the monastic rule.
misericorde
-
a variation of
misericord.
Example Sentences
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New College, Oxford, has a misericorde of the subject in which the figures, female in appearance, are seated in a sort of box.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
This is one of the side carvings to the misericorde of the three mowers, considered under the head of “Trinities.”
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
A pouch or wallet depended from the belt, and a sheath containing two daggers, an anelace, and a misericorde.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
In a misericorde at Beverley Minster we have three scenes from the history of the Devil.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
The "Lai d'Aristote," which occurred in the exterior carvings, is repeated here on the misericorde which is the ninth of the top row on the southern side.
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
