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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small apse; a secondary apse, as one of the apses on either side of the central or main apse in a church of triapsidal plan, or one of the apse-chapels when these project on the exterior of the church, particularly if the projection resembles an apse in shape. Also written absidiole.

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