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ancestral halls

ancestral halls is the plural of ancestral hall.

Meaning of ancestral hall

Noun

ancestral hall (plural ancestral halls)

  1. An ancestral shrine.
    • Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51

Questions about ancestral halls

What is ancestral halls the plural of?
Ancestral halls is the plural of ancestral hall.

Words near ancestral halls in the dictionary

  1. ancestours
  2. ancestral
  3. ancestral chart
  4. ancestral charts
  5. ancestral hall
  6. ancestral halls
  7. ancestral name
  8. ancestral names
  9. Ancestral Puebloan
  10. Ancestral Puebloans
  11. ancestral shrine

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