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/ˈklɪəɹ.stɔːɹi/ · noun
(architecture) The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral..
Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery.
On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
The cars built before 1913 had clerestory roofs, after the American style, and also were provided with gates and end vestibule platforms requiring gatemen.
Use clerestory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clerestory means (architecture) The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral..
Common synonyms include clearstory.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery.
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