Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Kathy of BermudaOnion. Here you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. 
I am sharing words from The Rome Prophecy by Jon Trace, all three are from the same sentence.
They stand for a moment in the cool of the church and look over the nave, with its three aisles, each ending in an apse, divided by quatrefoil pillars.
Nave: The central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the chancel and flanked by aisles.
Apse: A usually semicircular or polygonal, often vaulted recess, especially the termination of the sanctuary end of a church.
Quatrefoil: A conventionalized representation of a flower with four petals or of a leaf with four leaflets.
Narthex: The portico of an ancient church
I knew the parts of the church but quatrefoil is new to me. I did figure out that it meant four something. Thanks for playing along!
ReplyDeleteI knew nave and narthex, but the other two were unfamiliar. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteTwo of the words were familiar, nave and apse.
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I knew quatrefoil! :) But I had never heard of the others. That's one loaded sentence, can't believe they all came from the same one.
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