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Chapterhouse

noun
1.
A building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter.
2.
A house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity.  Synonyms: frat house, fraternity house.





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... recommenced work, and while he was painting the triptych for Donatello's Madonna (the miniature Nativity and Circumcision in the Uffizi), Albertinelli was at work in the convent of the Certosa, at a Crucifixion in fresco. The painting is extant in the chapterhouse, and is a very fair and unrestored specimen of his best style. The Virgin and Magdalen are very purely conceived figures; the idea of the angels gathering the blood falling from the wounded hands of the crucified Saviour is very tender; ...
— Fra Bartolommeo • Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)


Words linked to "Chapterhouse" :   edifice, fraternity house, building, house


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