Narthex definition

Narthex

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noun

(1) A vestibule leading to the nave of a church

(2) Portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church

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Etymology

From ‘giant fennel’, later ‘casket’ (modern Greek νάρθηκας).

Noun

A western vestibule leading to the nave in some (especially Orthodox) Christian churches.
- 1942: we were in the antechamber, called the narthex, which runs across the front of any Byzantine church — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 637)

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