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triforium

triforium
triforium
triforium

The area of a wall, often arcaded, above the main arcade level and corresponding to the rafters of an aisle or gallery roof. Although it may contain a wall passage it is not technically a gallery if it has a low lean-to roof (See also: tribune gallery). Medieval writers did not however make these distinctions.