Definition of Clearstory

1. Noun. Part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light.

Exact synonyms: Clerestory
Generic synonyms: Window

Definition of Clearstory

1. n. The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.

Definition of Clearstory

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clearstory

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

Literary usage of Clearstory

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

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... entrance doorway was sufficient for the purpose. Windows therefore were unnecessary. There is no evidence that clearstory windows, which seem GRECIAN ..."

2. English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield by Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Joseph Pennell (1892)
"Norman builders, I have often said, usually made pier-arcade, triforium, and clearstory of almost equal height. At Norwich, for example, the piers measure ..."

3. Handbook of English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury by Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1893)
"Yet there is no triforium-arcade—nothing but a wide plain strip of wall between the pier-arcade and the clearstory, defined but scarcely ornamented by a ..."

4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"But the thrust of the main vault along the whole clearstory wall was still difficult to meet ; the clearstory was darkened or ..."

5. Medieval Architecture: Its Origins and Development, with Lists of Monuments by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1909)
"There is a continuous triforium and a high clearstory. ... A triforium occurs in the nave, but not in the choir; the clearstory consists of a series of ..."

6. A Text-book of the History of Architecture by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1907)
"In the Norman churches the pier-arches, triforium, and clearstory were practically equal. In the Gothic churches the pier-arches generally occupy the lower ..."

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