clerestories in English
noun
1
the upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building.
Highlights of these volumes are the windows of the choir clerestory , and the tracery lights of various chapels and of the chapter house.
noun
clearstory
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1. Spaces such as the transept clerestories, the Baptistery, and the ambulatories were coupled to the nave and risked creating delayed echoes
2. It consists of five stepped, composition-covered wood roofs with clerestories, rather than a regular glass roof, in order to prevent damage from frequent hailstorms.
3. Such a diction, effervescent with the absurdities of transparent Barricadoes, "clerestories toward the south-north" (4.2.38), and the crazy metempsychoses of avian grandams, is an idiom from which the somber steward is fittingly barred.