OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13273

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/æps/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ábsida • ábside
A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
The draughtsman could not have held the sheet with the apse at the tip, for then, instead of shading away from the edge, most of his hatched lines would begin in the uncharted midd…
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