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单词 slype
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Definition of slype in English:

slype

noun slʌɪpslīp
  • A covered way between a cathedral transept and the chapter house or deanery.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The next step was to convert the three cottages to the west of the covered passage or slype into an office and ‘rest room’ at street level, and a caretaker's cottage above.
    • As the ironwork from St Albans slype, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is very innovative, it is possible that the inspiration for the smiths came from the abbey scriptorium.
    • Adjoining the S transept is the slype, a long narrow passage that was formerly covered by a barrel vault.
    • I think you were standing in the slype when you took your photograph, with your back to the chapter house.
    • Fr. Thomas is busy replanting the area around the new slype that had been dug up by construction.
    • So the enlarged south transept took in the slype, and it occupied the end bay with the broad gallery and the sanctuary chamber filling the space above.
    • The entrance from the slype into the cloister and the layout of the stairs is discussed further below.
    • A slype is the name for a covered passage from a church or monastery cloister.
    • A narrow mediaeval passageway, known as a slype, issues into to a paved court by the Checker Hall.

Origin

Mid 19th century: perhaps a variant of dialect slipe 'long narrow piece of ground'.

Rhymes

gripe, hype, mistype, pipe, ripe, sipe, skype, snipe, stripe, swipe, tripe, type, wipe
 
 

Definition of slype in US English:

slype

nounslīp
  • A covered way or passage between a cathedral transept and the chapter house or deanery.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A narrow mediaeval passageway, known as a slype, issues into to a paved court by the Checker Hall.
    • The entrance from the slype into the cloister and the layout of the stairs is discussed further below.
    • So the enlarged south transept took in the slype, and it occupied the end bay with the broad gallery and the sanctuary chamber filling the space above.
    • I think you were standing in the slype when you took your photograph, with your back to the chapter house.
    • Adjoining the S transept is the slype, a long narrow passage that was formerly covered by a barrel vault.
    • A slype is the name for a covered passage from a church or monastery cloister.
    • Fr. Thomas is busy replanting the area around the new slype that had been dug up by construction.
    • As the ironwork from St Albans slype, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is very innovative, it is possible that the inspiration for the smiths came from the abbey scriptorium.
    • The next step was to convert the three cottages to the west of the covered passage or slype into an office and ‘rest room’ at street level, and a caretaker's cottage above.

Origin

Mid 19th century: perhaps a variant of dialect slipe ‘long narrow piece of ground’.

 
 
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