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slype

[ slahyp ]

noun

, Architecture.
  1. a covered passage, especially one from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter house.


slype

/ slaɪp /

noun

  1. a covered passageway in a cathedral or church that connects the transept to the chapterhouse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slype1

1860–65; origin uncertain; compare dialectal Dutch slijpe secret path
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slype1

C19: probably from Middle Flemish slijpen to slip
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Example Sentences

Slype, slīp, n. a. covered passage from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter-house, &c.

According to the delightful English custom, it lies within a charming Close of green lawn and trees, while on one side a narrow passage called the Slype, quaintly inscribed, gives access to the Deanery, Library, &c., close by, which buildings add so much to the picturesque effect of the whole.

Through a door in a corner of the gardens there is a passageway opening out of one of the bastions of the old walls into a strip of ground called the "Slype," where a fine view is had of the bastions, with the college bell-tower and chapel behind them.

In making a recent addition to the buildings of this college on the edge of the "Slype," the workmen in digging for the foundations discovered the remains of a mammoth.

Among the conventual buildings which had survived to this time, and remained in occupation, was the chapter house, which, with nearly all traces of its antiquity destroyed, and with a gallery erected across its west end, had been converted into a meeting-house for dissenters, the old slype having been made into a vestry.

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