misericord in English
noun
1
a ledge projecting from the underside of a hinged seat in a choir stall that, when the seat is turned up, gives support to someone standing.
The sixty-two misericords or priests' seats, carved with everything from lions to scenes of everyday life, are believed to be of 1390.
2
an apartment in a monastery in which some relaxations of the monastic rule are permitted.
3
a small dagger used to deliver a death stroke to a wounded enemy.
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