"stave church" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: stave churches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} stave church (plural stave churches)
  1. A wooden church with a medieval post and lintel construction. Wikipedia link: Borgund stave church, stave church Categories (topical): Places of worship Translations (wooden church of a medieval type): stavkirke [common-gender] (Danish), staafkerk [feminine] (Dutch), stavkirkja [feminine] (Faroese), sauvakirkko (Finnish), Stabkirche [feminine] (German), stafkirkja [feminine] (Icelandic), stavkirke [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), stavkyrkje [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kościół słupowy [masculine] (Polish), stavkyrka [common-gender] (Swedish), ставкірка (stavkirka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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