clerestor(e)y, clearstor(e)y

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clerestor(e)y, clearstor(e)y, overstorey. Upper parts of walls carried on arcades or colonnades in the nave, choir, or transepts of a church, rising higher than the lean-to roofs of the aisles and pierced with windows to allow light to penetrate.

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