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chantry

noun as in altar

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noun as in chapel

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One Friday toward the end of September the monks of the choir stood practicing in the chantry.

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The east end is an exhibition hall of shrines and chantries.

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The reference appears in the inquest into the inheritance after the death of Sir Andrew Gray, a chantry chaplain in Aberdeen's parish church of St Nicholas.

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He sat in his office, a chantry to many of the things that games mean today.

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“Gareth’s blood,” said Mordred, “is not to be paid for by chantries, we think—however much it might pleasure the Bishop of Rochester.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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