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chantry

/chan-tree, chahn-/US // ˈtʃæn tri, ˈtʃɑn- //UK // (ˈtʃɑːntrɪ) //

礼拜堂,禅房,禅院,禅堂

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural chan·tries.Ecclesiastical.

    • : an endowment for the singing or saying of Mass for the souls of the founders or of persons named by them.
    • : a chapel or the like so endowed.
    • : the priests of a chantry endowment.
    • : a chapel attached to a church, used for minor services.

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Examples

  • He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.

  • A chantry of the Confraternity of St. George, built on the north side of the new church, took the place of a north aisle.

  • Quite recently a new high-pitched roof has been placed over this chantry.

  • Nicholson thinks it probable this was the chantry of St. Roch; its revenues were valued at £2, 14s.

  • He founded and endowed a chantry in the cathedral, and made various bequests to his old colleges at Oxford, dying in London 1422.

  • I stripped off Doctor Chantry's unendurable bandages, and put on my clothes, for there were brambles along the path.