Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In churches of the Levant, a sacred place, usually distinguished from the choir.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The central chapel of the three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. It contains the high altar, and is usually closed by an embroidered curtain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
central chapel of the three forming thesanctuary of aCoptic church . It contains the highaltar , and is usually closed by an embroideredcurtain .
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Examples
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The pulpit is of rosewood, inlaid with ivory and ebony, and in what is called the "haikal-screen" there are some fine specimens of carved ebony.
The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Rasya: x payah risau lebih baik ko risaukan tentang haikal tu lagi baik
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