: a chapel or porch at the entrance of an English church
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin galilea, probably after Galilea, Galilaeagalilee, from a monastic and clerical comparison of the church porch, where the laity gathered, to biblical Galilee, regarded, in opposition to Judaea, as a country of Gentiles (as in Matthew 4:15)
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