palacen.1
/ˈpalᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpæləs/ 1.
a. An official residence or former residence of an emperor, king, pope, or other ruler; (also) an official residence of a member of a ruler's family.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > dwelling of king or ruler > [noun]
hall971
fleta1000
saleOE
courta1175
palacec1300
praetoryc1384
praetorium1536
serail1585
seraglio1589
serai1617
sirkar1619
alcazar1623
alkedavy1631
palaisc1660
Residenz1824
istana1839
arch-house1876
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 1256 (MED) Horn him ȝede with his To þe kinges palais [v.r. paleyse].
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1390 (MED) Þemperour..to his palays come.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. ii. 18 (MED) In þe popis paleis heo is preuy as myselue.
1469 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 133 (MED) Yeven vnder oure Signet at oure Palois of Westminster.
a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) 488 The hounde..Ranne to the kyngys palays.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Lyik as plutois paleis hed been birnand.
1555 R. Eden Briefe Descr. Moscouia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 259v The dukes pallaice.
1614 in Bannatyne Misc. (1855) III. 210 Efter the sight of the parke and palice..[they] came to Bruntiland.
a1678 A. Marvell Fleckno in Misc. Poems (1681) 57 I whom the Pallace never has deny'd Will make the way here.
1768 Acct. Denmark 94 The royal palace of Rosenburg..is a handsome structure in the semi Gothic taste.
1792 in Columbia Hist. Soc. Rec. (1913) 16 130 The President..with the Commissioners examined the several plans for the Capitol and the Palace.
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 92 The King..was conducted by a garde bourgeoise to his palace at Versailles.
1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. vii. 233 The Ducal Palace stands comparatively alone.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 172/2 The ruins of Diocletian's palace at Spalato in Dalmatia.
1990 Voice of Arab World Dec. 25 11 The meetings took place in the bunker in the Presidential Palace on Habib Square, Baghdad.
b. the Palace: (metonymically) the monarch or monarchy; royal officials.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > [noun]
princec1225
sovereign1297
monarch?a1439
royc1440
royalc1440
regala1450
crown1474
potentatec1475
throne1593
mulai1594
Monarcho1598
sovran1649
sceptre-holder1655
Elohima1682
head of state1873
the Palace1962
1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. i. iii. 49 For much of this, it is unfair to blame the palace. Many of the pretensions spring from deeper causes than the monarchy.
1974 Times 6 May 14/7 The Palace..believed it did not have to accede to Mr Wilson's request.
1995 G. Vidal Palimpsest 372 The Palace sent a delicately phrased reply to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Radizwill, as divorced people, were not invitable.
2.
a. Christian Church. An official residence of an archbishop or bishop; spec. the official episcopal residence in a cathedral city. Also in extended use: any episcopal residence.
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society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > other clerical residences > [noun] > (arch)bishop's
palacec1300
see place?1553
see house1732
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1865 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 160 Seint thomas ne hadde i-beo at is paleis nouȝt longe.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 33 (MED) Þe Bysshop of Lynkoln..was not at hom at hys paleys.
c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cli More þei shal be sett by..whenne þei comen to her paleices.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 105 (MED) The archebisshop drough hem alle to his paleis.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. vi Al that Cardinalles palyces be so sumptuously mainteyned.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 27 The fest holden in the byshoppe of Londones palles.
1642–3 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1721) II. 109 To the Bishop of Lincoln's House,..commonly called the Bishop's Palace.
1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Aaa2va Knighten-Court, Is a Court-Baron or Honor-Court, held twice a Year under the Bishop of Hereford at his Palace there.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 122 Not all the plenty of a Bishop's board, His palace, and his lacqueys, and ‘My Lord!’
1845 J. F. Murray Tour of Thames 36 The manor-house, or palace, of Fulham has been, from a very early period the principal summer residence of the Bishops of London.
1886 Daily News 28 Dec. 7/1 The style of ‘palace’ belongs strictly to a bishop's residence within his cathedral city only. Lambeth Palace was known correctly as Lambeth House within the past 90 years; and letters of Bonner are extant dated severally from his palace at Fulham and house at Lambeth.
1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 at Donaldson, St. Clair George Alfred He organized week-end gatherings in his palace known to the irreverent as the ‘bishop's lipstick parties’.
1995 Economist 4 Mar. 115/2 An iconostasis by Arsa Teodorovic from the Serbian Orthodox Bishop's Palace in Pakrac.
b. U.S. regional (chiefly southern). The official residence of a state governor or other important dignitary; spec. the official residence of the former Spanish and Mexican governors of Santa Fe, New Mexico (cf. palacio n.), and of San Antonio, Texas.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > town hall
toll-hall1395
tollbooth1440
town hallc1453
town's hall?1609
Rathaus1611
booth-halla1711
palace1808
1717 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 255 I assure you Sr it is so far from it [sc. being a ‘Court Favourite’] that I have not bin wth: in the Governr: pallace doors..this nine months.
1787 W. Attmore Jrnl. Tour N. Carolina in James Sprunt Hist. Publ. (1922) 17 15 Towards evening took a walk with John Green to see the palace. The palace [in New Bern] is a building erected by the province before the Revolution [etc.].
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. 212 The public square is in the centre of the town; on the north side of which is situated the palace (as they term it) or government house.
1855 Santa Fe Gaz. 8 Dec. The legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico convened in the Palace, in Santa Fe, on Monday.
1885 Weekly New Mexican Rev. 22 Jan. 4/6 The old palace, the only palace known as such in the land, was seared with age before Europeans ascended the Allegheny mountains.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 879/1 The Palace of the Governors [in Santa Fe]..was continuously occupied (1610-1909) by Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. governors.
1997 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 18 May 102 The palace originally housed the governor's private apartments, reception rooms and offices, [etc.].
3. Any large and splendid residence or official building; a stately mansion.In some versions of the Bible loosely used for ancient Greek αὐλή, classical Latin atrium, hall, court: see quot. 1526.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial
palacec1300
dome1553
residencea1616
great house1623
mansion house1651
palazzo1657
châteauc1739
mansion1815
palacio1839
haveli1871
puri1935
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > manor house
hallc1000
boroughc1175
court1297
manorc1300
palacec1300
mansion1375
placea1387
manor-place1392
chemis1408
head-place1463
mansion place1473
manse1490
court-hall1552
manery1563
manor house1575
seat1607
country seat1615
great house1623
mansion house1651
country house1664
manor-seata1667
place-house1675
mansion-seat1697
hall-house1702
big house1753
ha'-house1814
manoir1830
manor hall1840
yashiki1863
seigneury1895
stately home1934
stately2009
c1300 St. Francis (Laud) 13 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 54 In is bedde a-nȝt A swiþe noble paleys him þouȝte þat he i-seiȝ.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 213 Þere were meny paleys [?a1475 anon. tr. palice] real and noble i-bulde in Rome in worschippe of emperours and of oþere noble men also.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 66 Þai schall hafe faire palaycez and grete and faire housez.
a1475 Visio Philiberti (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 17 (MED) Wer beth thi lonndys by exstorcyone take? Thin hyȝ pallys that thou hast belde, and towrys?
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 5238 (MED) Here now stood A riche paleys and a good.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xviii. 15 [He] went in with Iesus into the pallys [1539, 1611 palace] of the hye preste [Gk. αὐλὴν, L. atrium; c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. the halle of the bischop; Geneva hall; Rhem., R.V. court].
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C2 I will imagine a small cotage to [be] a spacious pallaice.
1615 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 274 Within the palice of Birsay.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 192 A troop of Cut-Throat Guards were sent, to seize The Rich Mens Goods, and gut their Palaces.
1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) at Woodstock The Churchills..for whom is built a most magnificent palace.
1823 S. Rogers Italy xviii. 4 Stop at a Palace near the Reggio-gate, Dwelt in of old by one of the Orsini.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 165 A hundred thousand palaces adorn the island.
1891 Dict. National Biogr. XXVIII. 154/2 Hudson's best work is the family group of Charles, duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Feb. 42/1 As we neared the center of the town the houses stood thicker, ran together as it were, grew into rambling palaces among parks and open squares.
1992 Economist 8 Feb. 23/3 The city's palaces and piazzas are increasingly exposed to the tide.
4. figurative. Something likened to a palace, esp. for its spaciousness, grandness, or richness of decoration.
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c1330 Body & Soul (Auch.) (1889) 28 (MED) Fram þe palays þat þou in lay Wiþ wormes is now ytaken þin in; Þi bour is bilt wel cold in clay.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 312 Pore peple..Percen wiþ a paternoster þe paleis of heuene.
c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 394 (MED) Touching the paleys of venus the quene, The goolden cloyster of maydenhode I mene.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOOii May..ouerthrowe the spirituall house or palace yt he hath entended..to reare vp.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 160 Which conceipt being entred into that palace of mans fancie.
c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas i. in Wks. (1898) I. 501 Some waxen pallaces with paine do reir.
1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 243 Numbers of Flies, whose Spoils lay scattered before the Gates of his [sc. the spider's] Palace.
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 110 That the worst Jail in England is a Palace to our present Situation.
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) v. 146 Behold there in the wood the fine madman! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights.
1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 65/1 The face of a wanderer from the cloud-palaces of the sylphs.
1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin vi. 84 Now each small seed..builds up its leafy palace out of dust.
1994 Bottom Line 15 Sept. 8/2 You can't assume that new owners will transform a hovel into a palace.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > house
towerc1374
housea1393
mansionc1395
anglea1398
harbourc1405
palacec1425
cardinal point1585
synod house1589
dodecatemory1603
the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > house
towerc1374
housea1393
mansionc1395
palacec1425
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2381 (MED) Þe Crabbe..named is þe paleys of Dyane.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 11 (MED) Iubiter in the Crabbes Hed Hath take his paleys and his mansioun.
a1475 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars (Longleat) (1880) 54 Mars shal entre as fast as he may glide In to hir [sc. Venus's] next paloys to abide.
6. A building, usually large and lavishly decorated, intended as a place of amusement, entertainment, or refreshment. Cf. gin palace n. palace of varieties n. a variety theatre.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > assembly rooms or halls
redoubt1702
assembly-room1744
drum-room1749
assembly house1762
pantheon1772
casino1789
pleasure dome1816
palace1831
melodeon1840
kursaal1850
winter garden1859
music hallc1883
Met1896
1831 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 3/3 This institution (American Theatre, Bowery)..is literally a palace of pleasure to the thousands who have shed upon it the patronage of their purses and smiles.
1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 358 The coffee parlours and cocoa palaces of many English towns.
1899 M. Beerbohm More 125 Oh, for the wasted glories of the old Oxford! Oh, for one hour in the Hoxton Palace of Varieties!
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xiii. 166 Sixth Avenue moving-picture palaces.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 179 Sir Oswald Stoll, by transforming the music-hall into the palace of varieties, achieved the same sort of result that Sir Joseph Lyons reached by converting tea-shops into Corner Houses.
1976 J. M. Brownjohn tr. H. H. Kirst Time for Payment 28 There was a big medium-priced restaurant, a porn palace, a hair stylist.
1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 20 Apr. 67/1 In roadhouses and beer palaces, he became Austin's redneck guru.
7. palace of justice n. a law court; esp. a supreme court. See also Palais de Justice n.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > high court
High Court of Parliament1399
High Justice1654
Sudder1834
palace of justice1835
Supreme Court1888
Crown Court1970
1835 Southern Literary Messenger Jan. 234/2 The palace of justice is a vast Gothic structure of the reign of Louis the Twelfth.
1884 T. A. Palmer Woman's Rights 6 Doing away with them [sc. Law Courts]!! After the enormous expense incurred for the building of our new Palace of Justice!
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 382/2 In it [sc. the Inca in Zagreb] are the business and industrial quarters; the palace of justice; the academy of science, [etc.].
1939 J. B. Morton Bonfire of Weeds i. 23 The author appears to be able to make everything, from a model of the Palace of Justice in Brussels to a bust of his aunt, out of cheese.
1990 M. Harris Hemingway's Suitcase xxviii. 202 Unfortunately he is in a cell at the Palace of Justice.
Compounds
C1.
a. With the sense ‘of, belonging to, or of the nature of a palace’.
palace-castle n.
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1839 E. S. Wortley Sonnets 18 The old Palace Castle crowns the o'erlooking height.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 24 Feb. 4/1 ‘San José’ is a most graphic picture of the palace-castle retreat of a leader of the Guachos who reigned by terror.
1954 J. Summerson Archit. in Brit. i. i. 1 Richmond Palace..was a great brick palace-castle on the French model, built round a courtyard and exhibiting exteriorly many tall, narrow towers.
palace chamber n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > state room
palace chamber?c1425
state room1695
gloriette1839
porphyry chamber1854
chamber of parament1920
?c1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer Former Age (Cambr. Ii.3.21) (1878) 41 Yit were no paleis-chaumbres ne non halles.
1696 N. Tate Miscellanea Sacra 21 He builds on Liquid Fire, and forms His Palace Chambers in the Skies.
1855 Harper's Mag. June 127/1 They are like royal ghosts that haunt the palace-chamber, and indignantly plead by their presence for the return of a race of kings.
1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) i. 18 The Irish poet Æ ‘recalled’ his past personae..living in tents and palace chambers, lying tranced in Egyptian crypts.
palace-church n.
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1798 H. Brand Huniades i. v, in Plays & Poems 38 In my chapel dormitory, Behind the altar of the palace church, I'll wait your coming.
1908 W. Carleton Drifted In 87 She walked the length of the palace-church, And finding an open vestry door, Crept into the stately house once more.
1983 New Scientist (BNC) 10 Feb. Why did Anicia Juliana attempt to recreate Solomon's temple?.. Her palace-church..was an imperial and dynastic protest.
palace courtyard n.
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1847 Littell's Living Age 14 Aug. 321/1 Ten heavy barouches and a long train of luggage vans crowded the palace courtyard.
1898 Argosy Aug. 79 The upper end of the palace courtyard was deserted.
1990 Opera Now May 41/1 One person..knew enough about hydraulics to be able to flood the palace courtyard to a depth of 5ft.
palace door n.
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1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 9 Before Augustus palace doore full duly shalt thou warde.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xxi. 286 Be the palace-door Thy charge,..key it fast.
1994 Amer. Spectator Feb. 106/2 These moods are deduced from the brief glimpses reporters get of the leaders as they dash from limo to palace door.
palace garden n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > large ornamental grounds
parkc1325
palace gardena1425
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 508 In-with the paleis gardyn..Gan he and I..to dwelle.
1611 Bible (King James) Esther vii. 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden . View more context for this quotation
1833 H. Martineau Three Ages ii. 39 In virtue of an office which he held, he had liberty to pass through the palace garden.
1972 M. Sheppard Taman Indera vi. 85 The first henna dance..took place in the palace garden.
palace-hall n.
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1598 H. Petowe 2nd Pt. Hero & Leander sig. Dijv But her Leander carefull of his loue, Intending loues firme constancie to proue..Withdrew himselfe into the Pallaice hall.
1798 E. Sotheby Patient Griselda f. A4v There, in the palace halls, vast throngs attend.
1989 Man 24 497 The king is inside the palace-hall accompanied by the full court.
palace home n.
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a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1912) 128 The king of hunting takith haith his sport, And to his palace home he can Resort, Ayan the noon.
1825 D. M. Moir Legend Genevieve 101 When palace homes were girt by magic charm, And life was stagnant as a frozen lake.
1917 V. Lindsay Chinese Nightingale 8 From the flag high over our palace home He [sc. a God of the Dragons] flew to our feet in rainbow-foam.
palace life n.
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1848 Amer. Whig Rev. Dec. 648/2 The manners of English cottage and palace life brought together in the relations of charity, and piety.
1992 Daily Tel. (BNC) 13 Apr. 17 She wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society, concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life.
palace politics n. (also figurative).
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1879 Harper's Mag. Sept. 628/2 The work is diversified with close interior views of affairs in England and on the Continent..also of the palace politics, court intrigues, and diplomatic methods and usages of that busy age.
1941 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 72 12 The only possible politics after this time would be within his own party, which would soon degenerate into palace politics.
2001 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 3 June 3 My purpose was to be granted an audience with the king [sc. of Nepal]. But to attain this I had to enter the strange world of palace politics in which undesirable consequences are never spoken of openly.
palace prefect n.
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1896 Dublin Rev. July 15 Eliakim is to succeed him as the king's palace-prefect.
1971 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 30 198 Tarīm-Šakim (the palace prefect and governor of Mari).
1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. x. 16/1 60 to 180 people..were greeted by the palace prefect, dined, heard music, [etc.].
palace prison n.
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1723 A. Philips Humfrey i. v. 7 Such, Madam, is the Sentence on the Dutchess; Who is conducted to the Palace Prison.
1857 Lady Falkland Chow-chow I. viii. 166 The unfortunate puppet was brought out from his palace-prison, and after going through the ceremony of investing his real master with the insignia of office as minister, was quietly shut up again.
2003 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 30 Mar. 1/11 One of the good guys is trapped in a palace prison of pure ice.
palace wall n.
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c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1398 The hevenyssh melodye Of songes ful of armonye I herde aboute her trone ysonge, That al the paleys-walles ronge.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 228 Purple Hangings cloath the Palace Walls.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xvi. 210 The profile of a Court beauty on a palace wall.
1992 Economist 24 Oct. 78/1 Government officials left the high palace walls and labyrinthine compounds of Istanbul for avenues laid out with a ruler along virgin hillside.
palace yard n.
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1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 9 The Oke amyd the palace yard ay faithfully too garde.
1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 408 I was then in the Terra do Paço, or King's palace-yard, and I had an opportunity of seeing the walls of several houses.
1998 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 30 Aug. c3 The palace yard was empty apart from the sentries.
b. Instrumental and locative.† palace-walking adj. Obsolete
palace-bordered adj.
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1838 J. Ruskin Poems (1891) II. 115 In a palace-bordered street, In the dusk starlight of the day, A stalkless flower fell near my feet.
1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel viii. 174 Through Prague's dirty, palace-bordered alleys must have pressed often in hot haste blind Ziska and open-minded Wallenstein.
palace-covered adj.
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1841 A. Smith Bentley's Misc. Mar. 376 The Brenta with its palace-covered banks.
1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. ix. 153 This palace-covered island.
palace-taught adj.
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1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 232/2 The palace-taught, and college-fed, Brings scandal on the meek unhonoured head.
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1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci ii. ii. 31 That palace-walking devil Gold.
c. Chiefly U.S. Designating something luxurious, grand in style, or palatial. Esp. in palace car, palace hotel.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel
hotel1687
hotel garni1744
lodgea1817
gasthof1832
temperance house1833
temperance hotel1837
railway hotel1839
palace hotel1844
parador1845
caravanserai1848
resort hotel1886
metropole1890
Ritz1900
trust house1902
apartment hotel1909
welfare hotel1915
motel1925
motor hotel1925
auto court1926
motor court1936
motor lodge1936
residential1940
botel1956
floatel1959
apartotel1965
motor inn1967
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage
caravan1821
private car1826
Jim Crow car1835
ladies' car1841
saloon car or carriage1842
palace car1844
ladies' carriage1847
parliamentary carriage1849
parlour car1859
composite carriage1868
Pullman1869
observation car1872
first1873
compo1878
bogie carriage1880
chair-car1880
club car1893
corridor carriage1893
tourist-car1895
birdcage1900
dog box1905
corridor coach1911
vista-dome1945
Stolypin1970
1844 Knickerbocker 24 192 Pleasant was the fishing-excursion..on board the matchless palace-steamer Knickerbocker.
1867 W. C. Church in Galaxy Mag. Aug. 484 The broad, easy-riding cars of the Pullman Company established a better claim to their title of ‘Palace cars’ than can be conceded to most American designations of similar character.
1870 J. D. Sherwood Comic Hist. U.S. 422 By the side of palace hotels, now gleaming along golden bays.
1943 J. K. Howard Montana 81 Fritz's admiring friends..boarded his ‘palace coach’ with its staterooms, library, bar, [etc.].
1969 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 4 Jan. 64/2 Whether the world of the Superjet will allow the survival of the palace hotels is a question facing grand tours and grand tourists.
1985 S. Palmer Blackpool's Cent. of Trams (BNC) 51 In the same year the first of four large Palace cars, seating 82, was delivered.
C2. † palace-crown n. Obsolete a counter used by officers of the Palais Royal in France.† palace-mouse n. Obsolete an obsequious courtier.Apparently an isolated use.
palace coup n. = palace revolution n.; also figurative.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > without civil war
palace revolution1845
palace coup1938
1895 Times 9 Oct. 4/1 The present Emperor, who was placed on the throne as an infant by a Palace coup de main, attained his majority.]
1938 Pacific Affairs 11 402 To be sure the evidence is of such a nature that it suggests that much of the plan for a ‘palace coup’ never got beyond the stage of being an attempt, if that.
1995 Wine Spectator 15 Sept. 39/3 In September 1990 there was a palace coup at the Kombinat.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > token used in place of coin > others
tavern-token1601
Harrington1628
palace-crown1653
mint-token1716
loggerhead1797
bank token1800
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxi. 148 A great purse full of Palace-crowns [Fr. d'escutz du Palais] called counters.
palace guard n. (a member of) a body of guards assigned to protect a palace, or a monarch or other sovereign ruler; also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun]
lifeguard-mana1657
musketeer1696
bodyguard1703
palace guard1729
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guard > guard of specific thing
palace guard1729
train guard1783
horse guard1828
1729 F. Midon Hist. Masaniello Index 221 They raise a Tumult before the Palace, and force open the Gate 33, beat away the Palace Guard 34.
1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 46 The palace-guard Had passed the measured rounds.
1973 Times 11 May 1/1 This seemed his [sc. President Nixon's] most direct admission to date that he had allowed himself to be kept too isolated for too long by his departed ‘palace guard’.
1999 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 61 Civilians may try to break the military's monopoly of force by forming their own state militias, palace guards, and guerilla armies.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > parasite > of a court
palace-mouse1608
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 118 These Palace-Mice, this busie-idle sort Of fawning Minions, full of smooths and smiles.
palace revolution n. [compare German Palastrevolution (1859 or earlier)] the (frequently non-violent) overthrow of a sovereign or government, esp. by senior members of the ruling group; also figurative.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > without civil war
palace revolution1845
palace coup1938
1845 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 271 The history of the government was but a series of palace-revolutions, in which the sovereign..was elevated, deposed, or strangled, according to the prevalence of different factions in the capital.
1935 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe I. xii. 143 The [Byzantine] state was shaken by palace revolutions and civil war.
1984 P. Lively According to Mark viii. 103 Stamp..speculated about a palace revolution in a leading publishing house.
1998 Economist 21 Mar. 53/3 He is patiently weaving a network of influence in preparation for a palace revolution—one day.
Palace style n. Archaeology a style of pottery associated with the palaces of the Minoan civilization; an imitation of this.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > ancient Greek or Byzantine
Samian ware1848
black-figure1867
Kamares1895
Palace style1901
Urfirnis1912
petal ware1930
1901 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 21 336 Some fine specimens of the ‘Palace Style’ of Mycenaean painted ware were also found, and others with naturalistic designs of plants and grasses, worthy of Japanese art.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 275/2 Between 1450 and 1375 bc, Mycenaean taste reduced the spontaneity of the early Marine style to a rigid formality, thereby creating the monumental Palace style.
1993 Hesperia 62 143 Among the fragments were those of a piriform jar of Palace Style.
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† palacen.2
Obsolete.
The hard palate; the roof of the mouth; (also) the uvula.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > palate
gumc825
roofOE
palatea1382
palacea1450
a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 133 And if an hors sclaueret oute of curse, Take hony & salt & eysel & tempere hem wel to-geder & wete a clout þen þer-ynne & frote ofte-syþe þe hors palays þer-wiþ.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 131v (MED) A Tunge in the throte: vua, or þe palase of þe mowthe.
1506 tr. Kalender of Shepherdes sig. Kviii The palys or rofe bone.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Fij What is the palays? Answere. It is the hyghest place or rofe of the mouth.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xviiiv Vlceration in the palace or the roughe of the mouth.
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palacen.3
/ˈpalᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpæləs/ Chiefly English regional (south-western). Now historical.
A storehouse or cellar, esp. for storing fish. Also: †an enclosure, a yard (obsolete).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun]
court1377
closec1440
quadrant1443
pryelle1480
base court1490
palace1506
quadranglec1543
courtyard1552
palace courta1679
quad1786
under-ward1826
tetrastoön1838
courtlet1844
riad1881
lapa1886
patio1931
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > yard or cellar
palace1506
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > an enclosed piece of ground > for working, storing, or growing in
yard1378
palace1506
hoppet1701
1506 Will of Richard Holland (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 137v My place or howse that I dwell in and a litell howse or paleys adiownyng [Exeter].
1598 R. Trevill Ledger in Rep. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Soc. (1840) 15 Accounts of the building of the Pallies wales to Kusen.
1703 Lease Corporation Totnes in Notes & Queries (1850) 1st Ser. 1 202/1 All that cellar and the chambers over the same, and the little pallace and landing-place adjoining to the river Dart.
1719 Lease Corporation Totnes in Notes & Queries (1850) 1st Ser. 1 233/2 All that great cellar lately rebuilt, and the plott of ground or pallace thereto belonging lately converted into a cellar.
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 317 At Dartmouth in Devon there are some of These Storehouses cut out of the Rock still retaining their Old Name of Palaces.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 96 Palace, a cellar for the bulking and storing of pilchards. This cellar is usually a square building with a pent-house roof, enclosing an open area or court.
1883 W. Blake in R. F. Walsh Irish Fisheries 27 Even now in certain parts of the county of Cork there were remains of what were called fish palaces, where the Dutch used to cure the fish.
1905 A. Quiller-Couch Shakespeare's Christmas 194 The pallace at the entrance had a roof on it then.
1974 Observer 14 July (Colour Suppl.) 30/1 The curing was done by women. Fish were piled against the walls of a cellar, known as a ‘pallace’, with salt between each layer.
2001 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 27 Feb. 2 Purpose-built cellars for curing pilchards, later called ‘fish palaces’, began springing up all over Cornwall.
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palacev.
/ˈpalᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpæləs/ Chiefly poetic. Now rare.
transitive. To place or lodge in or as in a palace.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > in other types of dwelling place
enkennel1577
hovel1582
cabin1602
impalace1611
palace1660
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina Ded. 3 Perfection were imprudent, and so no perfection, if it palaced not it self in such accomplisht creatures.
1830 T. Wade Jew of Arragon iii. iv. 50 That resolution in your woman's heart—By love and high ambition palaced there—Is somewhat reeling from her constancy.
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 356 Elektra, palaced once, a visitant To thy poor rustic dwelling, now I come.
a1894 R. B. W. Noel Coll. Poems (1902) 144 Their halls of ice Sunder from human sympathy; they dwell Palaced alone in flame unquenchable, A prison gorgeous.
1990 Henry James Rev. Spring 105 Widowed, childless, palaced, villaed, pictured, jewelled and modified by Venetian society.
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