clerestory
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Etymology
From Middle English clerestory, probably from clere (“clear: light, lighted”) + story (“storey/story: level of a building”).
Noun
clerestory (plural clerestories)
- (architecture) The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.
- 1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
- On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
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