rood screen

1. 1.

   a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel

   Broaderscreen

   Part ofchurch

Questions about rood screen

What does rood screen mean?

rood screen means "a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel".

Is rood screen a common word?

rood screen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.