( n. )
Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
( n. )
Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012