Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The loft or gallery where an organ stands. Also called music-loft.

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Examples

  • There were those of his flock, especially a pair whose quarter of the fold was the organ-loft, who were always charmed with the piping of that melodious pastor.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • The head charity-boy blows the bellows; the master canes the other boys in the organ-loft; the clerk sings out Amen from the desk; and the beadle with the staff opens the door for his Reverence, who rustles in silk up to the cushion.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Me and Julia cried so up in the organ-loft; we thought you would have heard us.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • To go towards the organ-loft was an act of unconsciousness, and she did not pause till she stood almost beneath it.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • Bows down from London to contest the organ-loft, and her candidate carried the chair.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • I was standing ever so still, looking through the great gates of the choir at the twinkling lights, and listening to the distant chants of the priests performing the service, when a sweet chorus from the organ-loft broke out behind me overhead, and

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • Liddy led off the children in the organ-loft in a hymn, and the whole pack went woefully out of tune, complimented Monsieur Tom on the sermon of monsieur his father.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • As they go into church Miss P. driving in her flock of lambkins with the crook of her parasol, how can it be helped if her forces and ours sometimes collide, as the boys are on their way up to the organ-loft?

    Dr. Birch and his young friends 2006

  • The glare of light thus introduced entirely destroys the sentiment these piles are calculated to inspire; so that, when I heard something like a jig from the organ-loft, I thought it an excellent hall for dancing or feasting.

    Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

  • “Bits of old wood carvings from the pulpit, and panels from the chancel, and images from the organ-loft,” said the clerk.

    The Woman in White 2003

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