upfloor
upfloor noun: an upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
Noun
upfloor (plural upfloors)
- An upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
- At Westminster, a part of the shafts set about the columns support the arches and groinings of the ailes, while others in the cluster ascend the upfloors and sustain the munions of the vaulting of the nave.1819, Charles Clarke, Architectura Ecclesiastica, page 8
- […] and, as the upfloor was used for the transaction of business, attended by many witnesses, we may suppose that it was a large, wide, lofty upper story, such as is found in many early Norman minsters.1878, Edward Hungerford Goddard, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Forms of upfloor
| plural | upfloors |
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Origin of upfloor
From Middle English upflor, from Old English upflōr, equivalent to up- + floor.
Questions about upfloor
- What does upfloor mean?
- Upfloor means an upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
- What part of speech is upfloor?
- Upfloor is a noun.
- What is the plural of upfloor?
- The plural of upfloor is upfloors.
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