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AISLE

Volume 2 · 59 words · 1860 Edition

in Architecture, is the term applied to the wing of a building; but it is chiefly used to designate the lateral divisions of a Gothic building divided by two longitudinal rows of piers. The space between these piers is sometimes inaccurately termed the middle aisle; but properly it is the body or middle of the nave, choir, or transept.