galilee

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
  2. In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

词形变化

galilees plural

词源

From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.
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