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loftUpper space within a building, often open on one side, used for storage or other purposes (e.g., sleeping loft, hayloft). The term also refers to one of the upper floors in a factory or warehouse, typically undivided by partitions and now often converted to other uses, such as residences or artists' studios. In churches the rood loft is a display gallery above the rood screen (see cathedral), and a choir or organ loft is a gallery reserved for church singers and musicians. In theaters, the loft is the area above and behind the proscenium. loft 1. the space inside a roof 2. a gallery, esp one for the choir in a church 3. a room over a stable used to store hay 4. an upper storey of a warehouse or factory, esp when converted into living space 5. a raised house or coop in which pigeons are kept 6. Sport a. (in golf) the angle from the vertical made by the club face to give elevation to a ball b. elevation imparted to a ball c. a lofting stroke or shot loft [lȯft] (building construction) An upper part of a building. A work area in a factory or warehouse. (textiles) The quality of resilience possessed by wool that permits it to return to its original shape after deformation. The degree of bulkiness of manufactured fibers and blends. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This log-cabin had a loft, where we boys slept, and in the loft were stored in barrels the books that had now begun to overflow the bookcase. Only Friar Tuck leaned over the edge of the choir loft and called out to him ere he had gone, "Good den, Sir Knight. And he had had a swift vision of his mother and brothers and sisters, their multitudinous wants, the house with its painting and repairing, its street assessments and taxes, and of the coming of children to him and Genevieve, and of his own daily wage in the sail-making loft. |
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