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Loft
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(connected with "lift," i.e. raised in the air; O. Eng. left; cf. Ger. Luft; the French term is grenier and Ger. Boden), the term given in architecture to an upper room in the roof, sometimes called "cockloft"; when applied over stabling it is known as a hay-loft; the gallery over a chancel screen, carrying a cross, is called a rood-loft (see Rood). The term is also given to a gallery provided in the choir-aisle of a cathedral or church, and used as a watching-loft at night.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Loft'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/loft.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Loft'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/loft.html. 1910.
