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Chevet

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Chevet"

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Word	Definition
apsenoun	(architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
chauncelnoun	Obsolete form of chancel. [The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.]
chapiternoun	(architecture) The capital or uppermost part of a column, upon which the roof and its decorations are supported.
conchanoun	Any shell-shaped structure:
chivnoun	A cooper's tool used to make that section.
crossingnoun	An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
chappelnoun	A surname.
cheveronnoun	Dated form of chevron (“V-shaped ornament”). [A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.]
gorgenoun	(botany) The throat of a flower.
retroquirenoun	Alternative form of retrochoir. [(architecture) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, such as a chapel.]
calottenoun	A skullcap worn by Roman Catholic priests.
conchnoun	A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
cancellusnoun	(architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
chimbnoun	(obsolete) Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”). [The top of a ridge.]
cheilionnoun	The corner of the mouth (as used in cephalometry)
chimenoun	(music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
chappellnoun	A surname.
channelnoun	Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
vergenoun	An edge or border.
cloister vaultnoun	(architecture) A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel vaults crossing in a right angle. The angles of intersection are groins with projecting angles at the base, which die away at the summit.