Definition of Clearstories

1. clearstory [n] - See also: clearstory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clearstories

clearout
clearouts
clears
clears out
clearsighted
clearsightedly
clearsightedness
clearskin
clearskins
clearstarch
clearstarched
clearstarcher
clearstarchers
clearstarches
clearstarching
clearstories (current term)
clearstory
cleartext
cleartexts
clearway
clearways
clearweed
clearweeds
clearwing
clearwings
cleary
cleat
cleated
cleating
cleats

Literary usage of Clearstories

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"The architect threw his influence here against the French type of immense clearstories which had obtained at Leon and Toledo. His windows are symmetrical ..."

2. A Text-book of the History of Architecture by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1907)
"(1755) the reverse change was effected ; the mosque has no great apses, four clearstories filling the four arches under the dome, as also in several of the ..."

3. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"The architect threw his influence here against the French type of immense clearstories which had obtained at Leon and Toledo. His windows are symmetrical ..."

4. Architectural Description of Kirkstall Abbey by William Henry St. John Hope, John Bilson (1907)
"... church (except those at the west end of the nave) have simple chamfered jambs and arches, as at Fountains, those of the clearstories on the west side of ..."

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