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词汇 triforium
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Definition of triforium in English:

triforium

nounPlural triforia trʌɪˈfɔːrɪəmtraɪˈfɔriəm
  • A gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.

    (教堂拱门上面的)楼廊,拱廊

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In ecclesiastical buildings, the triforium, a windowless gallery above the main arcade, was of great importance, largely for structural reasons, in contrast to the enlarged clerestory of Gothic architecture.
    • The triforium zone of the basilica features a cycle of over thirty frescoes of the life and legend of Peter, executed in about 1300 and credited to Deodato Orlandi.
    • A vast white room, it was, with a wide, white triforium lined with white canvas mattresses.
    • The church has been altered to form an auditorium with partly raked seating in the nave and exhibition spaces in the aisles and triforium.
    • It's a balustraded eyrie in the triforium, the narrow gallery 60 feet above the ground.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Anglo-Latin, of unknown origin.

Definition of triforium in US English:

triforium

nountraɪˈfɔriəmtrīˈfôrēəm
  • A gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.

    (教堂拱门上面的)楼廊,拱廊

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a balustraded eyrie in the triforium, the narrow gallery 60 feet above the ground.
    • The church has been altered to form an auditorium with partly raked seating in the nave and exhibition spaces in the aisles and triforium.
    • A vast white room, it was, with a wide, white triforium lined with white canvas mattresses.
    • The triforium zone of the basilica features a cycle of over thirty frescoes of the life and legend of Peter, executed in about 1300 and credited to Deodato Orlandi.
    • In ecclesiastical buildings, the triforium, a windowless gallery above the main arcade, was of great importance, largely for structural reasons, in contrast to the enlarged clerestory of Gothic architecture.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Anglo-Latin, of unknown origin.

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