Excubitorium

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excubitorium \Ex*cu`bi*to"ri*um\, n. [LL. excubitorium; ex out +
     cubare, cubitum, to lie.] (Eccl. Antiq.)
     A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
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