Clerestory

Quick meaning: Clerestory is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery.

The cars built before 1913 had clerestory roofs, after the American style, and also were provided with gates and end vestibule platforms requiring gatemen.

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.

Word Forms

• clerestories
• clearstory
• clerstory

Synonyms for clerestory

Depending on context, synonyms include clearstory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clearstory, perp, upfloor, blindstory, floor, triforium.

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