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palaces

noun

plural of palace

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a large impressive residence the billionaire's "summer cottage" turned out to be an over-the-top palace

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a large, magnificent, or massive building the governor's opponents have accused him of building palaces to house the state government

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the residence of a ruler Buckingham Palace flies a special flag to indicate when the monarch is in residence

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Recent Examples of palaces Unlike other pipe organs, these engineering marvels have percussive sound effects for thunderclaps, horse hooves and train whistles, perfect for old movie palaces. — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026 Chanel’s extraordinary trips—access to palaces, private jets, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, caviar dinners—all pass through the book as mundane elements of the scenery. — Olivier Bouchara, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026 The journey crosses the Pacific to Sydney, continues through the emerald seascapes of Ha Long Bay and the temples of Angkor, then reaches India, where the palaces of Jaipur and the timeless beauty of the Taj Mahal await. — Guy Bigiaoui, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026 The coast is peppered with grande dame hotels housed in former convents, centuries-old palaces, and pastel villas where everyone from Maria Callas and Coco Chanel to Liza Minnelli and Elizabeth Taylor have holed up. — Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026 Wudang’s palaces and temples flourished during the Ming dynasty, when Emperor Zhu Di undertook a major building campaign to align his imperial regime with Taoism. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 Movies shooting on anamorphic lenses designed for movie palaces. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026 Historically a place of palaces, jewelry, and luxury hotels rather than a drinks destination, Jaipur may finally have a cocktail bar to match its other charms. — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026 This location is more residential, with quieter streets and approachable local trattorias, but offers several architecturally significant palaces and one of the city's oldest churches, the 11th-century San Zan Degola. — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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From historical Irish mansions to romantic Italian sojourns, these are the best of the best hotels across Europe and the UK.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
The story says two Irish servants working at the Belle Haven mansions in the late 1800s fell in love.

— Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

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Ben Stiller, Jon Bon Jovi, and the model Irina Shayk all bought apartments in the glass-and-brick towers overlooking the West Side Highway, and Ryan Seacrest reportedly made his way in as a renter.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026
The original plan to develop Block 37 called for a five-story shopping center, and two towers designed by celebrity architect Helmut Jahn and standing 30 and 50 stories tall, the blog ArchitectureChicago Plus recalls.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of towers

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The proposal would also bar courts from placing those sentenced under the provision on probation or suspending their sentences.

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Governments from largely blue-leaning areas around the country have filed similar lawsuits seeking damages that could total billions of dollars, part of a wave of legal action worldwide seeking to leverage action through the courts.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026

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Medieval Décor Medieval décor is stepping out of castles and into modern homes.

— Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 26 Sep. 2026
There are Resident Evil games set in Spanish castles, runaway trains, ocean liners, weird mansions, the bayou, and strange theme-park-like villages, with bespoke creatures in each.

— Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of castles

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Originally inspired by the basilicas and cathedrals of Paris, Luminiscence co-founder Romain Sarfati and his team developed a way to engage visitors with the historic architectural beauty surrounding them.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Notre Dame Stadium is one of the cathedrals of college football.

— Curt Rallo, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of cathedrals

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026

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Despite this modest tourism boom, the town retains plentiful architectural evidence of its history as a turn-of-the-century manufacturing hub, with an abundance of red-brick and steel edifices lining its streets.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026
Over time, however, some intrepid people moved into the ruins of these edifices, setting up tents on the concrete floors, using bed sheets as walls, cooking on makeshift stoves.

— Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

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Family beach villas will comfortably sleep five while the resort goes out of its way to offer activities for parents and kids to bond over.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
Further titles from the Arab world include Concrete Land by Asmahan Bkerat, following an Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family on the outskirts of Amman as luxury villas close in around them.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

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