Crystal Palace

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noun

a structure of prefabricated iron units, glass, and wood, built in London to house the Exhibition of 1851: destroyed by fire 1936.

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How to use Crystal Palace in a sentence

I live at the intersection of several South London precincts, but the area most familiar to the wider world would be Crystal Palace, named after the vast Victorian glass house that once dominated its hilltop.
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On Friday, the story had looked like it might blow over as Buckingham Palace sought to dismiss it as a “civil case.”
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Some of the video was crystal clear, but in other footage the figures were just fuzzy shadows in black and white.
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The campaign was known to palace insiders as “Operation Mrs. PB.”
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Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.
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A palace insider however insisted to the Daily Beast today that the Queen was not about to abdicate.
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A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
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In the center of the river line stood the imposing red sandstone palace of Bahadur Shah, last of the Moguls.
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The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.
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But that is past; and I feel, that could birth give dignity, my ancestors of Nassau reigned in this very palace!
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On this account his home was near the great palace of the king, in the city of Seoul, the capital of the country.
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British Dictionary definitions for Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace

noun

a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936

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Cultural definitions for Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace

A great exhibition hall built in London, England, in the middle of the nineteenth century. It was one of the first prefabricated buildings and one of the first buildings with large expanses of glass wall.