cancellus.
A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
Meaning & usage
A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.
Where this word comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Latin cancellus (“little crab”). Doublet of chancel.
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