rood
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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
Vocabulary lists containing rood
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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