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Definition of Parvise
1. parvis [n -S] - See also: parvis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parvise
Literary usage of Parvise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parish Churches: Being Perspective Views of English Ecclesiastical by Raphael Brandon, Joshua Arthur Brandon (1858)
"... of those in this county and in Norfolk, is a very handsome erection richly
groined with a parvise over. The effect of the west end of the nave would be ..."
2. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough: A Description of Its Fabric and a by Walter Debenham Sweeting (1899)
"The central doorway must have been of still greater beauty; but the whole of the
upper part of it is hidden by the porch and parvise inserted beneath the ..."
3. Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a Complete ...Great Britain (1900)
"toiv. aisles, smith porch with parvise. ami a tower with spire, said to be the -t
in Yorks. The chancel screen is of two dates, the lower half being Perp. ..."
4. The Western Antiquary by William Henry Kearley Wright (1887)
"Some windows of this period were also inserted in the chancel. Of purely Decorated
work there is the large porch, vault«!, with a parvise ..."
5. A History of the University of Oxford from the Earliest Times to the Year 1530 by Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte (1886)
"6 After performing his exercises in the parvise for the prescribed period ...
In the eighteenth century, the variations in the parvise were held three times ..."
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