Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lectern .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
lecturn .
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- noun Archaic form of
lectern .
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And now, Reader, since the sermon is over, and we are still sitting here in this Miserere, let us read aloud a page from the old parchment manuscript on the lettern before us; let us sing it through these dusky aisles, like a Gregorian Chant, and startle the sleeping congregation!
Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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