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clerstory

clerstory is the archaic form of clerestory.

Meaning of clerestory

Noun

clerestory (plural clerestories)

  1. 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.
    • Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “In the Abbey Church”, in The Black Arrow

Forms of clerstory

pluralclerstories

Questions about clerstory

What is clerstory the archaic form of?
Clerstory is the archaic form of clerestory.

Words near clerstory in the dictionary

  1. clerosterol
  2. cleroteria
  3. cleroterion
  4. cleroterium
  5. clerstories
  6. clerstory
  7. cleruch
  8. cleruchia
  9. cleruchial
  10. cleruchias
  11. cleruchic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clerstory (page history and authors); clerestory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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