chevet

[ shuh-vey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

chevet

/ ʃəˈveɪ /

a semicircular or polygonal east end of a church, esp a French Gothic church, often with a number of attached apses

Origin of chevet¹

1800–10; < French, earlier chevès, Old French chevez ≪ Latin capitium opening or covering for the head. See caput

Origin of chevet¹

C19: from French: pillow, from Latin capitium, from caput head

Livres de chevet for those whom the Strindbergian school will always leave aloof.

Beyond the chevet stood a tower of which the actual one is a replica.

The first light in the Lyons chevet celebrates the local martyrs.

The choir is of late thirteenth century work, very short, with five chapels in the chevet.

In fact, the planning of this chevet is one of the proofs that the work was of French, and not of Spanish origin.

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[fur-kin ]

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