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Joss house   /dʒɔs haʊs/   Listen
Joss house

noun
1.
A Chinese temple or shrine for idol worship.






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... N. place of worship; house of God, house of prayer. temple, cathedral, minster^, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel^, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane^, holy place, chantry^, oratory. synagogue; mosque; marabout^; pantheon; pagoda; joss house^; dogobah^, tope; kiosk; kiack^, masjid^. [clergymen's residence] parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe; Vatican; bishop's palace; Lambeth. altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum [Lat.], sacristy; sacrarium^; communion table, holy ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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