Usually means: Area behind the high altar.
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  1. retrochoir: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrochoir: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retrochoir: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. retrochoir: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. retrochoir: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Retrochoir, retrochoir: Dictionary.com
  9. Retrochoir: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Retrochoir: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. retrochoir: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Retrochoir: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. retrochoir: FreeDictionary.org
  14. retrochoir: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. RETROCHOIR: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retrochoir)

noun:  (architecture) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, such as a chapel.
noun:  (architecture) In an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

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