prie-dieu
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of prie-dieu
1750–60; < French: literally, pray God
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The Oratory Church of St. Boniface, in downtown Brooklyn, has a chapel dedicated to Cardinal Newman, with an oil portrait, a prie-dieu, and a gold-leaf etching of his poem “Lead, Kindly Light.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
His prie-dieu, at the front center of the chapel, has a padded armrest.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the prie-dieu before which the couple knelt was tactfully draped a second magnificent lace bridal veil, an unexpected last-minute gift from the Hungarian Women's Organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brother Louis made for the tower, and when the President opened his door, Lord Roke darted through and made for the prie-dieu in the corner of the room.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
It is often used by painters of the fifteenth century in pictures of the Annunciation, where it does duty as a prie-dieu.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
Frescoed, marbled 16th-century interiors lead from one into another, handsomely furnished with spiritual artifacts and a liberal supply of prie-dieus, should anyone feel the sudden desire to kneel and pray.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2010
From half-closed eyes he sees a crowd of red peasant women, sees the little school-boys who crowd as near as possible to the carved prie-dieus of the gentry.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
He crosses to one of the prie-dieus and kneels on it.
From Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts by Björkman, Edwin
In the lower lights Philibert and Margaret, richly dressed, kneel at their prie-dieus, supported by their patron saints.
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.
Beauvouloir brought her beautiful spinning-wheels, finely-carved chests, rich carpets, pottery of Bernard de Palissy, tables, prie-dieus, chairs beautifully wrought and covered with precious stuffs, embroidered line and jewels.
From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de
To accommodate the visitors, St. Edward sets out beside the grave, loosely arranged as if around a campfire, a pair of weather-beaten wooden prie-dieux, an iron garden bench and a tilting patio chair.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
The Duchessa dropped on one knee, and then knelt for a few moments at one of the prie-dieux.
From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie
Together the bride and groom approached the linen cloth held by the surpliced altar boys, and together they received the greatest of sacraments, then returned to their prie-dieux.
From Charred Wood by Shepherd, J. Clinton
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