Retrochoir

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:40:20

Re"tro*choir (?), n. [Pref. retro- + choir.] Eccl. Arch.

Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

 

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