narthex

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  1. noun A portico or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, originally separated from the nave by a railing or screen.
  2. noun An entrance hall leading to the nave of a church.

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  • The narthex was crowded with reporters, lying in wait to jump people for comments on their way out. —  TAMI HOAG
  • One day, he asked if he could have a rosary that had been abandoned in the narthex. —  Argent by the Tiber
  • Donations of non-perishable food items may be left in the barrel in the narthex. —  Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
  • Seconds later, missing two of the steps, I landed with a thud in the narthex. —  Catholic Exchange
  • And after the service, as I stood in the narthex nodding and shaking hands, who greeted me but didn't know she was there, because I wasn't focusing on her (the one known attender in the midst of an unknown congregation). —  Akma
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  1. Late Greek narthēx, from Greek, box, giant fennel, perhaps of Indic origin.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin narthex, from Greek νάρθηξ, a tall hollow-stemmed umbelliferous plant (Latin ferula), also a wand of this plant, a case, casket; in LGr. also as in def. 1.
 

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