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The King's carriage swung into view and a crescendo of cheering went up from the crowd Benton saw blurred circles of color whirling dizzily about a steady center, and the center was the slender woman at Karyl's side, who was the day after to-morrow to become his Queen.

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  1. noun A point or place that is equally distant from the sides or outer boundaries of something; the middle: the center of a stage.
  2. noun A point equidistant from the vertices of a regular polygon.
  3. noun A point equidistant from all points on the circumference of a circle or on the surface of a sphere.

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  1. Middle English centre, from Old French, from Latin centrum, from Greek kentron, center of a circle, from kentein, to prick; see kent- in Indo-European roots.
 

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