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baptistery
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bap·tis·ter·y also bap·tis·try  (bpt-str)
n. pl. bap·tis·ter·ies also bap·tis·tries
1. A part of a church or a separate building used for baptizing.
2. A font used for baptism.

[Middle English baptisterie, from Old French, from Late Latin baptistrium, from Greek baptistrion, from baptizein, to baptize; see baptize.]
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Noun1.baptistery - bowl for baptismal waterbaptistery - bowl for baptismal water            
basin - a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; "she mixed the dough in a large basin"


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Few churches had baptisteries, and as a result, as was true in other countries, baptisms generally took place outdoors.
Unlike much of Renaissance architecture, where we easily recognize a representation of the Corinthian order, triumphal arch, temple front, or tholos, and in contrast to certain Tuscan Romanesque buildings such as the Baptisteries of Florence and Pisa, respectively modeled directly on the Pantheon and Holy Sepulchre, the Florentine Trecento developed in its major buildings an extremely sophisticated and poetic art of allusion, collaging, and concatenation of representational for ms.
 
 
 
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