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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a gallery in a church where public watch was formerly kept at night on the eve of some festival, and from which the great shrines were observed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Antiq.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
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- noun historical A
gallery in achurch , used forall-night vigils .
Etymologies
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Latin excubitorium; ex out + cubare, cubitum, to lie.
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