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ROOD-LOFT

Date "ROOD-LOFT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Specialty Definition: ROOD-LOFT

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Literature

Rood-loft (The). The screen between the nave and chancel, where the rood or crucifix was elevated. In some cases, on each side of the crucifix were either some of the evangelists or apostles, and especially the saint to whom the church was dedicated.
"And then to zee the rood-loft,
Zo bravely zet with zaints."
Percy: Ballad of Plain Truth, ii. 292. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ROOD-LOFT

Language Translations for "ROOD-LOFT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

lout croshey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ood-loftray

   

Russian 

  

хоры в церкви (rood loft). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

croglofft (garret). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ROOD-LOFT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-l-o-o-o-r-t"

-3 letters: dolor, drool, flood, floor, fordo.

-4 letters: dolt, door, fold, food, fool, foot, ford, fort, loft, loof, loot, lord, odor, ordo, rolf, rood, roof, root, rotl, roto, told, tool, toro, trod.

-5 letters: dol, dor, dot, for, fro, loo, lot, oft, old, oot, ort, rod, rot, tod, too, tor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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