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English
Noun
rood-loft (plural rood-lofts)
- A gallery over the rood-screen.
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70:His seconde hawke wexyd gery
And was with flyenge wery.
She had flowyn so oft,
That on the rode loft
She perkyd her to rest.