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Created by master designers such as Lancelot "Capability" Brown and William Kent, the gardens of stately homes such as Hampton Court, Blenheim Palace, and Chatsworth House are among England's top visitor attractions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was first introduced as an ornamental garden plant used primarily in large stately homes, but it subsequently escaped into the wider countryside.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

From the hospitality group behind the unapologetically glamorous Lafayette in San Diego’s North Park, Baby Grand is ready to make a splash in stately Coronado.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

A grandmother of a petty knight, an ugly woman with a crooked nose, seemed stately and beautiful in the torches’ strange light.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Then the crowd was asked to move out of the way as new paths were cut, and the women’s wear appeared at a steadier, statelier pace.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

In a statelier time and series, Cyrus would have been played by Jeremy Irons, but here the honor goes to Jake Maskall, who does what he can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2015

The pace of their music becomes statelier, the lyrics more universal, the production glossier.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2011

He put them on the runway at the Jeu de Paume — a contemporary art museum and one of this city’s statelier locations for a fashion show.

From Washington Post

"At many a statelier home we've had good cheer, But ne'er a kinder welcome found than here."

From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil

It supplanted some of the city’s stateliest mansions with corporate palaces in blue glass and bronze.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2020

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, called the result “the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

Indian Village is an historic development just to the west of the neighborhood, and it includes some of the largest, stateliest residences in the city.

From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 2, 2014

“The monument is appalling—in bad taste and in a very strategic position,” on Mexico City's stateliest avenue, near statues of Gandhi and Winston Churchill.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2013

The brave old plant, in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past: For the stateliest building man can raise Is the Ivy’s food at last.

From The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens