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rood-loft

rood-loft noun: a gallery over the rood-screen.

Noun

rood-loft (plural rood-lofts)

  1. A gallery over the rood-screen.
    • His seconde hawke wexyd gery
      And was with flyenge wery.
      She had flowyn so oft,
      That on the rode loft
      She perkyd her to rest.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70

Forms of rood-loft

pluralrood-lofts
alternative formroodloft

Questions about rood-loft

What does rood-loft mean?
Rood-loft means a gallery over the rood-screen.
What part of speech is rood-loft?
Rood-loft is a noun.
What is the plural of rood-loft?
The plural of rood-loft is rood-lofts.

Words near rood-loft in the dictionary

  1. Rood End
  2. rood geese
  3. rood goose
  4. rood screen
  5. rood screens
  6. rood-loft
  7. rood-lofts
  8. rood-screen
  9. rood-screens
  10. rood-steeple
  11. rood-steeples

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