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stately

[stayt-lee] / ˈsteɪt li /


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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

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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