jubé

• jube

From French jubé.

jubé (plural jubés)

1. (architecture) Synonym of rood screen.
   • 1885, C. B. Black, The South of France—East Half‎^[1], Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black:

     At the N. corner of the first division is the Post Office; and at the end of the next division is La Madeleine, commenced in the 12th century, and remarkable for its magnificent jubé, or rood-loft, constructed by Jean de Gualde in 1508.

   • 1904, Thomas Okey, Paris and Its Story‎^[2], London: J. M. Dent & Co:

     Behind are the church of St. Etienne du Mont the burial-place of Racine and Pascal, with its beautiful jubé, or choir screen, and the Lycée Henri IV., enclosing the tower of Clovis, all that remains of the fine old abbey church of St. Genevieve.

• Buje

Inherited from Middle French jubé, from Latin iubē, singular imperative of iubeō (“allow, bid”), from the Latin formula jubē, Domine, benedīcere (“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. (architecture) rood screen, jubé
2. (Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada) choir loft, organ loft (gallery within a church from which an organ is played)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[3], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Au-dessus de la porte, où seraient les orgues, se tient un jubé pour les hommes, avec un escalier tournant qui retentit sous les sabots.

     Over the door, where the organ should be, is a loft for the men, with a spiral staircase that reverberates under their wooden shoes.

• → English: jubé

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

jubé m (invariable)

1. rood screen, jube