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clerestories

n. (plural of clerestory English)

Usage examples of "clerestories".

Nearest to them, a curious Byzantine church, with an open octagonal cloister all round it, and above the shallow red-tiled roof of this projection, the roof of the church proper climbing by odd-shaped clerestories to the circular lantern, with its flattened conical hat of ridge-tiles.

The light inside the building came from the clerestories, the upper portion of the outer walls that held the stained-glass windows.

The light from clerestories above was adequate to his taste for dun cool interiors and vast unseen space.