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n. 1 A partition that closes off part of a building; especially one that separates an altar or chapel from the rest of a church. 2 (label en obsolete) An enclosed area, especially one separated from the main body of a building by a screen or partition.
Usage examples of "parclose".
And in the north aisle, in front of the parclose screen, the empty wrought-iron flower stand.
Chapel, thinking, now the wrought-iron stand will have disappeared, but it was there, right where it was supposed to be, in front of the parclose screen.
Jasper opened sections of the parclose screen that concealed the loudspeakers.
So it had to be here somewhere, along with the rest of the parclose screen and the section of memorial tablet that read, -ernal, and Id better get busy if I was going to find them before dark.