Transept
noun, Architecture.
1.
any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance to the choir.
2.
an arm of this, on either side of the central aisle of a church.
noun
1.
either of the two wings of a cruciform church at right angles to the nave
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