Lecturn

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:50:15

Lec"turn (?), n. [LL. lectrinum, fr. lectrum; cf. L. legere, lectum, to read.]

A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern].

Fairholt.

 

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