jubé

rood screen, jubé; choir loft, organ loft (gallery within a church from which an organ is played)

“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.

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.