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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A church in which the side aisles are as high or almost as high as the nave and which consequently lacks a clerestory.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Translation of German Hallenkirche : Halle, hall + Kirche, church.]
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