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单词 amen seat
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amen seat
amen seat n. originally and chiefly U.S. (now historical) a seat close to the pulpit at the front of a church or meeting house, used by those members of the congregation who lead the responses to prayers or preaching; cf. amen corner n.
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1877 J. Habberton Jericho Road xiv. 128 In an ‘amen’ seat sat an old half-breed.
1918 C. B. Johnson Illinois in Fifties 69 At the right and left of the pulpit, and parallel with it, were several rows of pews which the ungodly had profanely named the ‘amen-seats’.
1957 Georgia Hist. Q. 41 377 He always sat on the first Amen seat at the foot of the steps leading into the pulpit.
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