jubé

• jube

jubé (plural jubés)

1. A rood screen, which in continental Europe featured a balcony from which the Gospel and sermons could be read.

• Buje

Inherited from Middle French jubé, from Latin iubē, singular imperative of iubeō (“allow, bid”), from the Latin formula jube, Domine, benedicere ("deign, O Lord, to bless [me]"), which the reader used before reading the lesson at matins.

• IPA^(key): /ʒy.be/

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jubé m (plural jubés)

1. rood screen, jube
2. (Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada) choir loft, organ loft

• “jubé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

jubé m (invariable)

1. rood screen, jube