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- noun Plural form of
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Examples
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However, the walls of the three apses had already been erected up to a height of three metres.
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Domes, spheres, apses, barrels, tubes, and the like were joined in a complexity of angles, connections, and fusions, so that the whole rather resembled a mass of merged soap bubbles.
April 5th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The apses were used for burial, with older bones pushed aside and sorted by type as a new body was moved in.
For the want of fish and chips shunn 2008
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The roofs have long since fallen in, leaving open the central corridors with semi-circular apses to either sidesomething like two capital B's back to back.
For the want of fish and chips shunn 2008
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October 25, 2008 at 6:43 pm oh. weel. now dat u remindering mii. ya, i new dat. sumtiymez not awl mai sin apses b firing at deh same tyme.
Player Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The apses were used for burial, with older bones pushed aside and sorted by type as a new body was moved in.
For the want of fish and chips shunn 2008
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Call me “old school,” but I still prefer the timeless apses of Arcosanti over this, when it comes to form-of-density, but then – I still like stone, wood, glass, metals. . .
THE SUPERSTAR: Self-Sustaining City of the Future | Inhabitat 2008
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The roofs have long since fallen in, leaving open the central corridors with semi-circular apses to either sidesomething like two capital B's back to back.
For the want of fish and chips shunn 2008
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If we left Iraq, then Al Qaeda would probably be run out of Iraq on their collective apses.
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He traveled to Chartres, and found solace amid its roses and apses.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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