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westworks

westworks is the plural of westwork.

Meaning of westwork

Noun

westwork (plural westworks)

  1. The vaulted monumental structure at the western end of a church constructed in some medieval styles, flanked by two towers and containing the entrance.
    • Facing the raised sanctuary over the vast crypt they also often erected at the west end of the nave a towerlike structure with vaulted stories, that we call the "westwork."1987, Malcolm Quantrill, The Environmental Memory: Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas, page 134

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What is westworks the plural of?
Westworks is the plural of westwork.

Words near westworks in the dictionary

  1. westwind
  2. Westwood
  3. Westwood Park
  4. Westwoods
  5. westwork
  6. westworks
  7. westy
  8. wet
  9. wet and messy
  10. wet and messy fetishism
  11. wet and warm

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