Indeed, trunk roads begin on the parvis of Notre-Dame of Paris at Kilometre Zero.
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Parvis and his colleagues have been working on their multipurpose lens since 2004.
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Parvis, the Albany investor, owns 4,000 shares of Feldman.
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The marriage takes place not in the cathedral but on the parvis of the cathedral, as Henry IV is Protestant.
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This tabernacle is presently positioned in the hall under the church parvis, while the set of angels is temporarily held in storage.
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A courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral)
Parvis or parvise is the open space in front of and around a cathedral or church, especially when surrounded by either colonnades or porticoes, as at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
In France the term for the open space in front and around cathedrals and churches; probably a corruption of paradises. In England a term wrongly applied to a room over a church porch.