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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOFT (connected with " lift," i.e. raised in the air; O. Eng. lyft; cf. Ger. Luft; the French
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term is grenier and Ger. Boden)
  , the
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term given in architecture to an upper
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room in the roof, sometimes called " cockloft "; when applied over stabling it is known as a hay-loft; the gallery over a chancel screen, carrying a
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cross, is called a rood-loft (see Roon) . The term is also given to a gallery provided in the choir-aisle of a
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cathedral or church, and used as a watching-loft at
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night .

End of Article: LOFT (connected with " lift," i.e. raised in the air; O. Eng. lyft; cf. Ger. Luft; the French term is grenier and Ger. Boden)
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