| 单词 | leper window |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleper window leper window n. (also leper's window) a small window or opening in a church wall, supposedly intended to allow lepers outside to see the elevation of the host. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > other parts > [noun] > hagioscope squint1839 hagioscope1840 lychnoscope1843 leper window1850 squint-hole1889 1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 111/1 ‘The Leper's window’ through which, it is concluded, the lepers who knelt outside the building witnessed the elevation of the host at the altar. 1882 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. 3. 470 There was a leper window at Elsdon church. 1937 L. MacNeice Eclogue from Iceland in Poems 96 The leper window reveals a church of lepers. 2002 A. Jones Every Pilgrim's Guide to Great Brit. Ireland 25 There are no windows on the north side, apart from a later small window near the altar, sometimes referred to as a leper's window. < as lemmas |
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