All 3 Uses of
regal
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Aringarosa entered slowly, regally even.†
Chpt 41-42 *
- The air inside smelled antediluvian, regal somehow, with traces of pipe tobacco, tea leaves, cooking sherry, and the earthen aroma of stone architecture.†
Chpt 53-54
- Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(regal) so fine, magnificent, or dignified as to be suitable for royalty; or belonging to a king or queen