apsidiolen.
/apˈsɪdɪɒl/ Architecture.
A small or secondary apse.
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1889 in Cent. Dict.
1905 F. Bond Gothic Archit. (1906) ix. 170 The semicircular apses and absiodoles [sic] of Romanesque become polygonal in Gothic.
1951 Archit. Rev. 110 338/3 The ambulatory with an apsidiole half buried in the ground enabling pilgrims to see the relics in the crypt.
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