Crossword-Solution: CLERESTORY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Clerestory | n. | The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs. |
| Clerestory | n. | Same as Clearstory. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CLERESTORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| High-window section of a structure | 1 answer |
| CHURCH wall, upper part of | 2 answers |
| Church part | 55 answers |
| Wing | 65 answers |
| Gallery | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CLERESTORY (5)
She took his hand, and, giving him the broad part of the spiral stair to walk on, led him down a good way; then, opening another little door, led him out upon a narrow gallery that ran all round the central part of the church, on the ledges of the windows of the clerestory, and through openings in the parts of the wall that divided the windows from each other.
The moon shone through the windows of the clerestory, and enough of the ghostly radiance was diffused through the church to let me see, walking with a stately, yet somewhat trailing and stumbling step, down the opposite aisle, for I stood in one of the transepts, a figure dressed in a white robe, whether for the night, or for that longer night which lies too deep for the day, I could not tell.
How pleased to watch the setting sun making the ragged clerestory more beautiful than did all its precious panes." I stopped.
Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows leaning from the clerestory gallery.
The vaulted roof, with its quaintly carved angels, was for the most part dim and shadowy, but here and there a ray of sunshine, slanting in through the clerestory windows, changed the sombre tones to a golden splendor.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1990–1998).