chevet

[ shuh-vey ]

/ ʃəˈveɪ /

an apse, as of a Gothic cathedral.

Origin of chevet

1800–10; < French, earlier chevès, Old French chevez ≪ Latin capitium opening or covering for the head. See caput

This interesting church is largely Romanesque in style (tower, chevet and nave).

Rheims and the Battles for its Possession |Various
Cassion kept to the men along the bank below, while Chevet lay motionless beside a fire, smoking steadily.

Beyond the Frontier |Randall Parrish
The chevet of the choir extends, as it were, well into the nave, there being no transepts.

The Cathedrals of Northern France |Francis Miltoun
Let us now examine with some minuteness the arrangement of the plan of the chevet.

Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain |George Edmund Street

At No. 119 we see the chevet of the church St-Laurent, the only ancient part of the church as we know it.

Historic Paris |Jetta S. Wolff

chevet

/ (ʃəˈveɪ) /

a semicircular or polygonal east end of a church, esp a French Gothic church, often with a number of attached apses

C19: from French: pillow, from Latin capitium, from caput head