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▪ I. ‖ nef|nɛf|
Also 8–9 neff.
[F. nef ship, etc.:—L. nāvem: cf. nave n.2]
†1. The nave of a church. Also attrib. Obs.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 187 The Church is very spacious, the Nef or Body of it is round. 1705Addison Italy (1766) 55 The long nef consists of a row of five cupolas. 1775Johnson in Boswell 5 Nov., We saw the cathedral... The choir splendid... The Neff very high and grand.
2. (See quots.)
1834M. Edgeworth Helen II. 192 Every officer of the household making reverential obeisance as they passed to the Nef,—the Nef being..a piece of gilt plate in the shape of the hull of a ship in which the napkins for the king's table are kept. 1862Wright Dom. Mann. & Sent. Eng. Mid. Ages 163 Of these ornaments, one of the most remarkable was the nef or ship—a vessel generally of silver which contained the salt-cellar, towel, &c., of the prince or great lord.
3. An incense-boat. Cf. navet2.
1867M. E. Herbert Impress. Spain (1868) 208 In the sacristy was..a nacre nef and some fine heads of saints.
▪ II. nef
obs. form of neif. |