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RETROCHOIR

\ɹˌɛtɹə͡ʊkwˈa͡ɪ͡ə], \ɹˌɛtɹə‍ʊkwˈa‍ɪ‍ə], \ɹ_ˌɛ_t_ɹ_əʊ_k_w_ˈaɪə]\

Definitions of RETROCHOIR

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English

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Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

r[=e]'tr[=o]-kw[=i]r, n. (archit.) an extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Part of cathedral or large church behind high altar. [Latin]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

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