📚 noun • entry_id 47434
prie-dieu
/pɹiːˈdjəː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
reclinatorio
A piece of furniture on which someone can pray, consisting of a cushioned area to kneel on, with a built-in ledge for books.
Leaning her childish face and full chin on the shelf of the prie-Dieu, her eyes fixed, she laughed, out of some hidden capacity, some lost subterranean humour [...].
thinking to improve his hour, he took to kneeling at a prie-dieu and ventured upon some propitiatory prayers to the Virgin which might serve as a sort of scaffolding to the more im…
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