MEANING
A gallery above a church's rood screen, often associated with the display or support of the rood.
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- wooden rood loft
- carved rood loft
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The wooden rood loft cast a dark band across the nave.
She climbed toward the carved rood loft while the others watched the doorway.
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- rood loft
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular rood loft; plural rood lofts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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