Both Uses of
edifice
in
Hard Times
- The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Fact being, I presume, that Mr. Bounderby the Banker does not reside in the edifice in which I have the honour of offering this explanation?'†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
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(edifice) a building or structure -- especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework