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communion rail

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communion rail
In a church, a low railing enclosing that part of an altar within which the communicants are provided with a place to kneel and receive Communion.
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I dreamed that I was standing inside the communion rails of a church--I on one side of the altar-table, and the clergyman, with his surplice and his prayer-book, on the other.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
 
 
 
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