lectern
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Noun — A sloped stand in a church that holds the Bible while it is read aloud during a service.
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Etymology
A 15th-century partial re-Latinization of early-14th-century Middle English lettorne, lettron, which came from Old French leitrun, from Medieval Latin lectrinum, from Late Latin lectrum, from lectus (also the source of lecture), a form of Latin legō ("to read").
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