单词 | anchorite's window |
释义 | > as lemmasanchorite's window anchorite's window n. (also anchorite window) historical (now rare) a small opening through which an anchorite receives food, communications, etc. ΚΠ 1865 Athenæum 16 Dec. 849/2 Canon Rock..considered the opening to be an anchorite window. 1889 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3 148 Some think it an anchoret window, others a ‘leper’ window. 1994 R. Gilchrist Gender & Material Culture vii. 178 At Lindsell (Essex), for example, an anchorite's window survives to the north of the chancel. < as lemmas |
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