Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chapel, usually located behind the sanctuary in a cathedral or church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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Examples
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In the Lady Chapel, where he remained through the mass, giving alms for the expenses of the service, alms for the poor, and looking as serious as though he were superintending an operation.
The Atheist's Mass 2007
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In the Lady Chapel, where he remained through the mass, giving alms for the expenses of the service, alms for the poor, and looking as serious as though he were superintending an operation.
The Atheist's Mass 2007
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The cladding of this brick structure with marble and mosaics has been only half carried out because of the lack of funds, but the Lady Chapel has gold mosaics.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The cladding of this brick structure with marble and mosaics has been only half carried out because of the lack of funds, but the Lady Chapel has gold mosaics.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The cladding of this brick structure with marble and mosaics has been only half carried out because of the lack of funds, but the Lady Chapel has gold mosaics.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The cladding of this brick structure with marble and mosaics has been only half carried out because of the lack of funds, but the Lady Chapel has gold mosaics.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The cladding of this brick structure with marble and mosaics has been only half carried out because of the lack of funds, but the Lady Chapel has gold mosaics.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The cladding of this brick structure with marble and mosaics has been only half carried out because of the lack of funds, but the Lady Chapel has gold mosaics.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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This chapel is smaller than the others in the triforium, and was reduced in size when the west end of the Lady Chapel was built.
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It was now removed to the Lady Chapel, where it remained until well on in the present century.
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