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altar rail

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altar rail
n.
A railing in front of the altar that separates the chancel from the rest of a church.


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Concluding the Marriage Service of the Church of England in those well-known words, my uncle Starkweather shut up his book, and looked at me across the altar rails with a hearty expression of interest on his broad, red face.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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