stately
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Café Gerbeaud, a stately 1870s spot, is known these days for its elegant takes on Hungarian pastries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Steps lead down into the spacious living area, where some of the apartment’s most striking prewar features take center stage, including regal archways, a stately fireplace, and a row of arched leaded-glass windows.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
A circle of nine stately wood chairs on a bare stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
Penelope glanced over her shoulder at the stately house marked Number Twelve.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
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
Of all slow, cold, stately Conservatives in the world, the slowest, coldest, and stateliest is the English Catholic peer.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
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