Upfloor

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.

    "At Westminster, a part of the shafts set about the columns support the arches and groinings of the ailes, while others in the cluster ascend the upfloors and sustain the munions of the vaulting of the nave."

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"At Westminster, a part of the shafts set about the columns support the arches and groinings of the ailes, while others in the cluster ascend the upfloors and sustain the munions of the vaulting of the nave."

Etymology

From Middle English upflor, from Old English upflōr, equivalent to up- + floor.

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