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Parvis

noun

A courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral).

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"Parvis" Quotes from Famous Books

... we have been standing on the parvis, looking out over the sea and sands which are as good eleventh-century landscape as they ever were; or turning at times towards the church door which is the pons seclorum, the bridge of ages, between us and our ancestors. Now that we have made an attempt, such ...

— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... Colbert continued the good work and put up the first mile-stone, or whatever its equivalent was in that day, measuring from the Parvis de Notre Dame at Paris. Some of these Louis XIV. bornes, or stones, still exist, though they have, of course, been ...

— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

... courtyard paved with marble, silent and enclosed, which serves as a vast parvis, the sanctuary recalls those of Mehemet Fatih or the Chah Zade: the same sanctified gloom, into which the stained glass of the narrow windows casts a splendour as of precious stones; the same extreme distance between the enormous pillars, leaving more clear ...

— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti

Words linked to "Parvis" : courtyard, court