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nar·thex (när'thĕks')
n.
  1. A portico or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, originally separated from the nave by a railing or screen.
  2. An entrance hall leading to the nave of a church.

[Late Greek narthēx, from Greek, box, giant fennel, perhaps of Indic origin.]




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