palace

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This palace is a mixture of Gothic and modern architecture, and this mingling of the two styles gives it a most singular appearance Within these walls lived and died the old dynasties of the Romanoff and Ruric; and this is the same palace which has been so often stained with blood by the intrigues of a ferocious court, at a period when all quarrels were settled with the poniard.

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  1. noun The official residence of a royal personage.
  2. noun Chiefly British The official residence of a high dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
  3. noun A large or splendid residence.
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  • The room on the ground floor, northeast corner, of the palace is the one used by Emperor William I. as his study; and one back of this was his bedroom, containing the simple iron cot which was the companion of his soldier days, and which remained the couch of his choice to the end of life. —  In and Around Berlin
  • With the exception of the numerous lanterns; which by their size announced the dignity of the different personages whose steps they lighted, the ceremony of the king’s return to his palace was the same as on his leaving it, and with his majesty departed all that had a moment before given life and animation to the place The women, satisfied that nothing more was to be seen, also left the terrace. —  The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
  • An apartment in the palace was allotted to Holbein, with a salary of 200 florins besides the price of his pictures HENRY VIII. —  Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
  • On the top of each turret, you might see a little death, with a smoking heart stuck on the point of his dart Around the palace was a wood, consisting of a few poisonous yews and deadly cypresses, and in these, owls, blood crows, vultures and the like were nestling; and croaking continually for flesh, though the whole place was nothing but a stinking shamble. —  The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
  • The main hall in the palace was adorned with representations of the crucifixion and other Biblical scenes. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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  1. Middle English, from Old French palais, from Palātium, Palatine Hill, Rome (from its being the site where emperors built their homes), imperial residence.

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  1. Early modern English also pallace; from Middle English palace, palas, palais, paleis, pales, palys, palays, paleys, paloys (= OFries. palas = Dutch paleis = Middle Low German palas, palās, pallas, pallās = Middle High German palas, German palast = Swedish palats = Danish palads, from Old French palais, paleis, palois, French palais = Provencal palais, palait, palaitz = Spanish Portuguese palacio = Italian palazzo = Anglo-Saxon palant, palentse = Old Saxon palencea = OFries. palense = Old High German phalanza, phalinza, palinza, Middle High German phalanze, pfalze, paliza, German pfalz, from Latin palatium, Middle Latin also palacium (also palantium(?): cf. palantia, palatinate), a palace, so called with reference to the residence of the emperor Augustus on the Palatine hill in Rome (where Nero afterward built a more splendid residence), from Palatium, rarely Pallatium (Greek Παλάτιον, Παλάντιον Παλλάντιον), the Palatine hill, supposed to have been named with reference to Pales, a pastoral goddess; cf. Sanskrit pāla, a guardian, from √ pā, protect.
 

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