jube

Examples

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• You want jubes, man?

  Fiction book (1998)

• At Reims, the newly crowned king greeted his subjects from the jube, and it has been suggested that screens at Mainz and other imperial churches played an important role in the anointing of kings in Germany.

  Academic text (2000)

• He's got one pocketful of jubes.

  Snowtown (2011)

• Well, there's also rows of chocolate, gummies, jube jubes, etc.

  Blog text (24)

• Across the surface of the jube at Chartres, produced during the fourth decade of the thirteenth century, viewers beheld an extensive series of images focusing on the events of Christmas and Easter.

  Academic text (2000)

• The French word jube refers to the formulaic request for blessing prior to the reading of the Gospel, "Iube Domne sic benedicere."

  Academic text (2000)

• Despite their highly fragmentary state, a good idea of the specific content of these reliefs can be gained thanks to a series of detailed drawings executed prior to the destruction of the jube in 1682 (Figs. 20, 21).

  Academic text (2000)

• The learned clergy at Chartres and Strasbourg would certainly have appreciated the meticulous attention to natural detail on their jubes that I believe was so important to lay response; after all, their cathedral schools were deeply immersed in probing the workings of the natural world.

  Academic text (2000)

• First, it offers no insight into the origins and functions of screens erected earlier; the jube at Chartres, which Viollet-le-Duc praises as being "of a rare beauty" and dates to the middle of the thirteenth century, was in fact produced by 1240, well before the hypothetical retreat.

  Academic text (2000)

• The ornate jube at the cathedral beautifully separated the choir from the main congregation area.

Synonyms

C

choir loft

vsjube

1 5.1

A raised area in a church where singers sit during services

separates the singers' area from the main part of the church

Surface Forms

Etymology