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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The left side of an altar or a chancel as the congregation faces it.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[So called from the practice in some churches of reading the Gospel and the Epistle from different sides.]

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