westworkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛstwɜːk/

名詞

westwork (複数形 westworks)

1. (architecture) The vaulted monumental structure at the western end of a church constructed in some medieval styles, flanked by two towers and containing the entrance.
   • 1987, Malcolm Quantrill, The Environmental Memory: Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas, page 134:

     Facing the raised sanctuary over the vast crypt they also often erected at the west end of the nave a towerlike structure with vaulted stories, that we call the "westwork."