hagioscope
Americannoun
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A low side window near the southwest corner has been variously described as a confessional, a hagioscope, and a leper window.
From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Edric Holmes
The chancel is out of centre with the nave, necessitating a large hagioscope on N. An ungainly modern N. aisle needlessly emphasises this lop-sidedness.
From Somerset by G. W. Wade
The visitor will notice the ancient font; also a hagioscope and holy water stoup.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
A hagioscope opens from this chapel into the chancel, and was discovered accidentally when an arch was being cut on the north wall of the chancel to contain the tomb of Lord Bray.
From Chelsea The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
Why pore over them in this selfish manner all alone and at the dead of night when no one can possibly disturb you, or, since you have blocked the hagioscope, even see you?
From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard
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