Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
civery . Also spelled severey, severie, severee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
baldacchin . - noun architecture A
compartment of avaulted ceiling .
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Examples
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The quilt is lovely, it looks like there is love in severy stitch.
Healing Sunlight regina doman 2008
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My forecast is severy remorse over Obama by late spring and a move to draft Gore and make Obama VP.
Hillary Christine Robinson 2008
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Walttheboy … read the sop … marie swift chick … read the sop … or if you prefer let the gvt dictate severy aspect of our local govt …
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Say if two people go into a duel with sword, the loser might suffer severy injury but may not die.
Archive 2005-10-01 Sun Bin 2005
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Say if two people go into a duel with sword, the loser might suffer severy injury but may not die.
Applying 'Game theory' to the Taiwan Strait problem, Google image and Anti-Secession Law Sun Bin 2005
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The western bay or severy has a greater extension east and west than the three to the east, and corresponds to the adjacent chapels.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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Duke of York in every severy, and with crowned roses and portcullis alternating with each other, intimating that, as the portcullis was the second defence of a fortress when the gate was broken down, so he had a second claim to the crown through his mother, daughter of John de
A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild
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The greater space of the west severy is diminished by the introduction of detached columns, so that the arches may all be of a like span.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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In the great square western severy of the nave this was easier, but the other severies are oblong.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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The county, which produces 70 percent of China's supply of feather and down products, makes more than 1 billion yuan (144.9 million U.S. dollars) from raising poultry and processing feather severy year.
unknown title 2009
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