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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
pew .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The redcap carried his bag into the waiting room; he sat down on one of the pewlike benches, put his guitar case beside him, and read the train schedule on the opposite wall.
Half of Paradise James Lee Burke 1965
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Simpson's, and in one of the pewlike compartments, over mutton and caper sauce, he tried to "talk a little life into her."
Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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This magnificent object sits at the center of a large, gray-walled gallery, flanked reverentially by eight diminutive pewlike benches meticulous reproductions of a child's settle by Stickley.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2012
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The intimate confines of the theater - with its upholstered pewlike seating and a vast rotunda looming overhead - well serves the theme: the search for transcendence through the certainties of religious faith or the vagaries of human love or both.
NYT > Home Page By CHARLES ISHERWOOD 2012
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