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rood-lofts

rood-lofts is the plural of rood-loft.

Meaning of rood-loft

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

Questions about rood-lofts

What is rood-lofts the plural of?
Rood-lofts is the plural of rood-loft.

Words near rood-lofts in the dictionary

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

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