imperial
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The contest’s co-host Victoria Swarovski, singer, model and crystal heiress, says the city is a true metropolis best experienced on foot—where imperial architecture and centuries-old cafés weave through contemporary restaurants and nightlife.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
This distinction mattered enormously to the founders, who were deeply suspicious of standing armies and associated them with tyranny and imperial overreach.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
Two decades later, in the 1860s, the fort walls came down, paving the way for imperial buildings to come up which gave the city its distinct colonial identity.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
“This leads to the imperial boomerang,” he told me.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
Werfel sat nervously in the palace’s imperial archives, waiting to go down to the city gates and greet the guest.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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