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The team also recovered well-preserved painted sculptures and many pieces of the medieval rood screen, which once divided congregants from clergy until it was demolished under Louis XIV.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2022

There’s another reference that says a clock was installed above the rood screen of a church.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2022

Beyond the house, the road meandered upward past more villas, then dustily through a cluster of old cottages around the medieval parish church, which had a distinguished rood screen.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019

This panel hung for many years behind the rood screen of a small church in rural Belgium, but its current whereabouts are unknown.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2018

Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring rood as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

In another setback, he found that land boundaries back then were measured in "roods" and "perches."

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2010

The Warwickshire County Council says there are four roods to one acre, and 40 perches to one rood, though it can vary by locality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2010

There too huge Tityos, whom Earth that gendereth all things Once foster'd, spreadeth-out o'er nine full roods his immense limbs.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges

He measured the whole lordship of Elmton, consisting of some thousand acres, simply by striding over it, and gave the area not only in acres, roods and perches, but even in square inches.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter's mould.

From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville