1
: a compartment in the auditorium of a church providing seats for several persons
2
: one of the benches with backs and sometimes doors fixed in rows in a church
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The secretary of Health and Human Services had traveled to the small, remote city of Seminole, where 1,000 mourners for Daisy filled the wooden pews of an unmarked Mennonite church.
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Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
In a simple white church in Richmond, Virginia, tourists regularly fill the pews to hear a re-enactment of a speech first given within the building’s walls 250 years ago, on March 23, 1775.
—Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
Majors says congregants flooded to services dressed in their finest and crowded into the pale wood pews.
—Buffy Gorrilla, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025
Police are searching for a crook who pilfered an elderly woman’s purse from her pew at a church in Brooklyn, cops said Friday.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
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Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
In a simple white church in Richmond, Virginia, tourists regularly fill the pews to hear a re-enactment of a speech first given within the building’s walls 250 years ago, on March 23, 1775.
—Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
Majors says congregants flooded to services dressed in their finest and crowded into the pale wood pews.
—Buffy Gorrilla, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025
Police are searching for a crook who pilfered an elderly woman’s purse from her pew at a church in Brooklyn, cops said Friday.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
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pew
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: one of the benches with backs and sometimes doors set in rows in a church
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