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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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The marble atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, near the Capitol, felt unusually empty and tense on a recent June morning.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2025
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The lobby stuns on arrival with original steel beams, exposed brick and a spiraling black staircase rising into a 33-foot atrium bathed in moody, architectural lighting.—
Katharina Kotrba,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The six suites, lounges, dining room, courtyards, and pool house are all defined by Bocarra’s architectural whimsy and the free-spirited elegance of Willis’ interior design.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Outside a modest mud house, several cows chew lazily on cud inside their pens, while a hen struts across the sodden courtyard, her five chicks in tow.—
Shamim Chowdhury,
NPR,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The now-familiar Olympic cauldron torch was added above the peristyle at the east end of the stadium.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes.com,
1 May 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
Noun
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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
Noun
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For acts such as Skaggs and The Oak Ridge Boys, among many others, a nondescript office plaza in Music City's Hendersonville suburb has fostered country's bluegrass and gospel roots for generations.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
9 Aug. 2025
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In Córdoba, colonial chapels cast long shadows across warm sandstone plazas, while Mendoza stirs slowly beneath the crystalline melt of the Andes—its sprawling vineyards glowing gold in the slanting afternoon light.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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With the arrival of Amaya, an odd quadrangle emerges between her, Austin, Ace, and Chelley.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
11 June 2025
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Not private enough to give up federal funding, whether for student tuition fees, quadrangle rhododendrons, wind tunnels, or NMR Spectrometers.—
Amity Shlaes,
National Review,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Waterfront offers everything from bar bites in its downstairs lounge to fine dining creations on its second-level patio.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2025
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Along with the addition, the redevelopment is to include an outdoor dining patio.—
Tom Daykin,
jsonline.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The theater instructors asked campers to make themselves into shapes: A circle, a square, an exclamation point.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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The organization, which began in 2018, has a robotics center down the street from the square.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Parvis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parvis. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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