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stately

[stayt-lee] / ˈsteɪt li /


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In addition to seven bedrooms and 20 bathrooms, the stately interiors include multiple dining rooms, lounges and a walnut-paneled library.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

“You’re invited to relax and entertain surrounded by a stately fireplace, regal archways and a row of leaded glass arched windows framing open-sky views,” the listing notes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

It has a twangy guitar, stately woodwinds and a loping groove that makes you feel like you’re nudging a herd of cattle through a mountain pass on a cloudless day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"We don't need months and months of negotiation in a stately home, everybody knows what needs to be done," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

It was another to sound like a fool in front of this stately lady. “,fwthchor evtoogh brzzay eerth ymmadboech evtoogh brzzaY” I said finally.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Tharp’s “In the Room” was sheer exuberance, Nearly four decades later, Tharp hardly seems to have slowed down her dance, but ”Aquas” does have a statelier sheen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

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

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

Let us walk on through Essex Street, unheeding the throng, unmindful of the statelier buildings, until we approach an ancient landmark at the corner of North Street.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

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

I will not assert that I am handsome, while Fara, next to Belisarius, is certainly the stateliest of all our six and thirty thousand men.

From The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn


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