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undercroft. An underground chamber, such as a church crypt, often with a vaulted ceiling.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
3 mar 2023 · The meaning of UNDERCROFT is a subterranean room; especially : a vaulted chamber under a church.
undercroft. Słownik > Przykłady dla undercroft. undercroft nie występuje jeszcze w słowniku Cambridge. Możesz pomóc! Commercial exchange took place in an open, colonnaded undercroft, and an upper chamber combined the functions of guildhall, town council room and court of law. Z Cambridge English Corpus.
Undercroft, un′dėr-kroft, n. a vault under the choir or chancel of a church: a vault or secret walk underground. The ancient history of this undercroft is unknown, and merely a matter for conjecture. The canopy is gone, but fragments of it are in the undercroft of the chapter-house.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun undercroft. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, [1] often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open to the sides, but covered by the building above.
undercroft. (ˈʌndəˌkrɒft) n. (Architecture) an underground chamber, such as a church crypt, often with a vaulted ceiling. [C14: from croft a vault, cavern, from earlier crofte, ultimately from Latin crypta crypt]
