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noun
A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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History
Unadapted borrowing from Latin cancellus (“little crab”). Doublet of chancel.
