narthex

How To Use narthex In A Sentence

• The baptism begins at the narthex of the church, where the godparents speak for the child, renouncing Satan, blowing three times in the air, and spitting three times on the floor.
• Where colours were hard to make or obtain, uncoloured tesserae were overpainted: red glass was particularly difficult and often, as in the narthex panel in Hagia Sophia, red paint was applied.
• Above each narthex is a gynaeceum, which was for the use of women only.
• This man lived alone in the old narthex. The Crossing-Place
• Some aspects of the design are a little strange -- the rather weak articulation of the principal elevation behind the low screen of the narthex; the wealth of freestanding or nearly-freestanding towers, the stumpy nave swallowed up by the great crossing; but many of these are simply traceable to the titanic scale of the project, a feature common to every one of the designs submitted. W. Halsey Wood's Jerusalem the Golden
• They were seated at the midpoint of the nave, with us facing them backward, that is, toward the narthex rather than the apse of the cathedral.
• 1117, [Greek: narthêx] is "ferula" or "fennel-giant," the pith of which makes excellent fuel. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
• The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted.
• The narthex door by which they had entered was set in an archway decorated with reliefs of various animals, sheep, wolves, a sportive deer. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
• Where colours were hard to make or obtain, uncoloured tesserae were overpainted: red glass was particularly difficult and often, as in the narthex panel in Hagia Sophia, red paint was applied.