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chancel

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chan·cel  (chnsl)
n.
The space around the altar of a church for the clergy and sometimes the choir, often enclosed by a lattice or railing.

[Middle English chauncel, from Old French chancel, from Late Latin cancellus, latticework, sing. of Latin cancell; see cancel.]

chancel [ˈtʃɑːnsəl]
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the part of a church containing the altar, sanctuary, and choir, usually separated from the nave and transepts by a screen
[from Old French, from Latin cancellī (plural) lattice]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.chancelchancel - area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"
choir - the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
church building, church - a place for public (especially Christian) worship; "the church was empty"
Translations
chancel [ˈtʃɑːnsəl] Ncoro m y presbiterio
chancel [ˈtʃɑːnsəl] nchœur m
chancel
nChor m, → Altarraum m
chancel [ˈtʃɑːnsl] ncoro
chancel [ˈtʃɑːnsl] ncoro


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He knew that he would have to walk alone through the chancel, and he dreaded showing his limp thus obviously, not only to the whole school, who were attending the service, but also to the strangers, people from the city or parents who had come to see their sons confirmed.
The curate's pew was opposite the rector's at the entrance of the small chancel, and Will had time to fear that Dorothea might not come while he looked round at the group of rural faces which made the congregation from year to year within the white-washed walls and dark old pews, hardly with more change than we see in the boughs of a tree which breaks here and there with age, but yet has young shoots.
I think I shall never hear Elizabeth's voice again, never look into her eyes, never kiss her dear lips--but Elizabeth is still mine, and I am hers, as in that morning when we kissed in that little chancel amid the flickering light, and passed out into the sun and down the lanes, to our little home among the meadow-sweet.
 
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