rood-loft

English

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Noun

rood-loft (plural rood-lofts)

  1. A gallery over the rood-screen.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70:
      His seconde hawke wexyd gery
      And was with flyenge wery.
      She had flowyn so oft,
      That on the rode loft
      She perkyd her to rest.
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