Both Uses of
edifice
in
Bleak House
- He admires the size of the edifice and wonders what it's all about.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- "People objected to Professor Dingo when we were staying in the north of Devon after our marriage," said Mrs. Badger, "that he disfigured some of the houses and other buildings by chipping off fragments of those edifices with his little geological hammer.†
Chpt 16-18
Definition:
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(edifice) a building or structure -- especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework