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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SLYPE , a variant of " slip " in the sense of a narrow passage; in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the name for the covered passage usually found in monasteries between the See also:

TRANSEPT (from Lat. trans, across, and septum, enclosure; synonymous terms in other languages are Fr. croisee, nef transversee; Ital. crociata; Ger. Querbau, Quersch&)

transept and the See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter-See also:

house, as at See also:

Winchester, See also:

Gloucester, See also:

Exeter and St Albans.

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