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n. - Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a professor.

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  • Next up to the lectern was the protesters 'lawyer, Margie Phelps.
  • So when you say he felt at home at a lectern, a lectern was his second home.
  • The deacon and thurifer go to the lectern, which is set where the Gospel is normally sung.
  • It makes me feel like a professor with a lectern, which is a good way to feel when you're cooking.
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