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What does misericords mean?

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Noun
  1. plural of misericord
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Weak light filters in through stained glass and creates deep shadows among the pews and misericords.
They tweaked his tail on carven misericords, and in the mystery play he was invariably cast for the clown.
Some of Davis's misericords have a distinctly medieval flavour and he may have copied some of the original designs.
In 1688, the joiner Roger Davis, citizen of London, removed the 13th century misericords and replaced them with two rows of his own work on each side of the choir.
The senior choir stalls are misericords, hinged seats with a wooden block on which choirmen could sit during long sermons.
These appear in the stained glass windows, stone column capitals, decorated ends of pews, or even the misericords carved on the bottom of hinged church seats.

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