nave
Example Sentences
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Looming over the colorless town is its hulking circa-1385 monastery, extended in convent courtyards and stately chapels with lofty naves, offering dazzling displays of stained glass.
In the nave she will swear an oath on the Saint John's Bible, the first time a new bible has been used since 1945, in what is being seen as a reflection of modernisation.
From BBC
As a viewer marches down the nave toward the high altar, the apostles also come into view, on a trompe l’oeil ledge.
Outright splendor gives way to bold-faced promotion in an annex gallery, housed in MAD’s grand, soaring nave.
The Monreale mosaics were meant to impress, humble and inspire the visitor who walked down the central nave, following the fashion of Constantinople, the capital of the surviving Roman empire in the east.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
