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...is an archaic architectural term that should be resurrected.
From the "Forgotten English" calendar for December 24, 2002:
"One of the slits or loopholes left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c., to allow the sound of the bells to escape, and to admit air and light."
-- Joseph Wright's _English Dialect Dictionary_, 1896-1905.
"Properly, a loop-hole for letting out sound, as between the lufferboards in a belfry. From Anglo-Saxon _dreám_, music."
-- C. Clough Robinson's _Glossary of Mid-Yorkshire_, 1876.
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