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chantry

[chan-tree, chahn-] / ˈtʃæn tri, ˈtʃɑn- /
NOUN
altar
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At the lectern during rehearsals he turned the pages of the missal, a book of music notes large enough for all the Brothers to see as they stood in the chantry.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

One Friday toward the end of September the monks of the choir stood practicing in the chantry.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

From the easternmost of the three bays of the Jesus Chapel formerly projected the Hulme chantry.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

To make my lady's obsequies, My love a minster wrought, And in the chantry, service there Was sung by doleful thought.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

All Souls' was designed by its Founder, Archbishop Chicheley, ad orandum as well as ad studendum; it was to serve the purpose of a chantry not less than of a College.

From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin




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