(n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 0.9% of cases, compressive hematomata in the thyroid loggia, collapse of the tracheal wall due to tracheomalacia or bilateral paralysis of the vocal cords determined an acute respiratory stoppage.
(2) The authors report three cases of post-traumatic ischemia of leg forward loggia.
(3) The current line is also difficult to enforce because it is hard to differentiate between handmade art and digitally made depictions.” In an earlier document, Facebook moderators had been warned to delete images of Giambologna’s 16th-century statue the Kidnapping of the Sabine Women in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence if reported.
Sacristy
Definition:
(n.) An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lynn's conviction stems from the transfer of accused priest Edward Avery to a new parish, where he was later accused of raping a former altar boy in the church sacristy.
(2) The vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasizsed throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics, lay and religious, to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
(3) This enabled him to see the places he describes so vividly in his book: the Casa Santa Marta, the hall of residence-like building, staffed by nuns, where the cardinals bunk down during the conclave; the Pauline Chapel, with its two frescoes by Michelangelo, where they attend a sermon before withdrawing to the Sistine Chapel to vote; and the Sacristy, where the new pope is robed.
(4) Saturday night's vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasised throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics – lay and religious – to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
(5) Check out the El Greco Museum, the only one in the country dedicated to the painter, but also take in an early masterpiece and the painter’s simple wooden tomb in the monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, in the furthest reaches of the old town, and the great El Greco altarpiece of 1577, fresh from restoration, in the cathedral’s sacristy.