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Recent Examples of parvis
The western façade, giving onto the parvis, the open area before the cathedral, was not completed until around 1240, and the upper gallery of the nave and the two towers on the west façade were finished between 1225 and 1250.
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Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2019
Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parvis
Noun
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An additional 200 balcony cabins overlook the World Promenade, the flashy seven-story open-air atrium.—
Elizabeth Heath,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Jan. 2025
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Zoom in: The work includes a two-story addition in the courtyard's interior, which creates a glass atrium to enhance the site's views.—
Jason Clayworth,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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The building’s courtyard boasts its own economy — an ecosystem, really — where the residents are united by the effort to get by.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Kenneth Chaney, 23, is slated to be sentenced to 21 years in state prison for the May 23, 2023, shooting in the courtyard outside the library.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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The cold room consists of a peristyle or porticoed court that is 10 meters (33 feet) long and 10 meters wide, with a large pool at the center.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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And for the next two nights, the Coliseum’s peristyle will be illuminated in blue light.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Oct. 2024
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It is attached to a galleria with a striking black slate floor, a wet bar, columns and glass doors that open onto the patio.—
Karen A. Avitabile,
Hartford Courant,
14 Jan. 2024
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Bea walked into the bright light of the galleria and sat at the small café.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
30 Aug. 2023
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Like Disney's parks, the lands are accessible from a central plaza which is found at the end of a street stretching from the entrance.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Its location in a small shopping plaza along U.S. 31, the county’s major highway, makes the market convenient to hundreds of workers who commute between Benzie County and Traverse City, the region’s largest city and business center.—
Keith Schneider,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The quadrangle between the Temples of Jupiter and Bacchus had been filled with wooden tables and stalls selling wine and sfiha, a Bekaa specialty.—
Youmna Melhem Chamieh,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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But Stiller liked pausing on the precipice of the perverse love triangle—or quadrangle—of Mark torn by two halves of his consciousness toward two women.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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The patio was a nice wood deck with walls covered in field turf.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Jan. 2025
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Reservations are available for indoor and patio seating from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 30.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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Lightly oil your knife or coat with nonstick spray and cut the caramel into 1 inch squares.—
Kelly Brant,
arkansasonline.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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Descartes regarded force as the product of mass and velocity, whereas Leibniz argued that it was better seen as mass times the square of velocity.—
Anthony Gottlieb,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Parvis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parvis. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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