Middle English Dictionary Entry
clẹ̄restōrie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | clẹ̄restōrie n. Also clari-, cler-, ? cleo-. |
| Etymology | Cp. clẹ̄r adj. & stōrie n.; also cp. OF estoré, ppl. of estorer build. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The clerestory of a church; also, a series of windows in the upper part of a cloister wall.
Associated quotations
- (1412) Indent.Church Catterick10 : The forsaide Richarde sall make the pilers with the arches and the clerestory of the hight of sax and twenty fote abouen erth.
- (1434) Indent.Fotheringhay in Med.Mason246 : The cler-story..shal be made of clene asheler growndid upon ten mighty pillars..Every wyndow..according in all points to the wyndows of the clere-story of the said qwere.
- (c1447) Let.Midylton in Lin.NQ 16202 : That he make hym to glase newe, off the same svte off glas that the chaunsell ys off, the cleostorijs on hy in the Kyrk.
- (1448) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1355 : The same cloister shal conteyne..in height xx fete, with clere stories rounde aboute ynward.
- (1454) Doc.in Blomefield Hist.Nrf.6220 : Symond Blake..which ded expendyn..with glasing of a window in the Claristory.