rood-loft

English

Alternative forms

• roodloft

Noun

rood-loft (plural rood-lofts)

1. 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.