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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A church in which the side aisles are as high or almost as high as the nave and which consequently lacks a clerestory.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Translation of German Hallenkirche : Halle, hall + Kirche, church.]

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