Meanings
nounrood-loft (plural rood-lofts)
plural rood-lofts · alternative roodloft
- A gallery over the rood-screen.
His seconde hawke wexyd gery And was with flyenge wery. She had flowyn so oft, That on the rode loft She perkyd her to rest.
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70
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