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Screens passage
Also called screens, cross passage
The passage through a medieval or Tudor house from the front door to the back, at the lower end of the hall, divided from it by a timber screen. The buttery, the pantry and the way to the kitchen opened off it; a gallery for musicians often ran over it.
Rules that use the word
The hall, its screens passage and its two ends. Put the hall at the heart of the house and enter it at one end, by a passage running through the house from front door to back door, screened from the hall. Open the buttery, the pantry and, between them, the way to the kitchen off that passage, at the hall’s lower end; put the family’s parlour, and the great chamber over it, beyond the hall’s upper end, where the high table stands.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The House in England and America.
A feature of Tudor architecture.
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