stately
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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
The stately foyer, adorned with granite, murals and statuary, would be kept intact and open to all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
He looked at the lovely stately lady with kindness and she at him, and they began to talk.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Frenzied Afro-Cuban dancing mixes with statelier Mexican danzón; one set piece is illuminated by a flashing neon sign, and another puts Mercedes and her sister in a museum, surrounded by pre-Columbian artifacts.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2019
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
Why was it that Miss Barrington, on that evening, was grander and statelier than ever?
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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 stateliest is the national monument to commemorate the victory of Waterloo, originally intended to be a reproduction of the Parthenon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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