All 3 Uses
edifice
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The Celestial Railroad
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- This very neat and spacious edifice is erected on the site of the little wicket gate, which formerly, as all old pilgrims will recollect, stood directly across the highway, and, by its inconvenient narrowness, was a great obstruction to the traveller of liberal mind and expansive stomach The reader of John Bunyan will be glad to know that Christian's old friend Evangelist, who was accustomed to supply each pilgrim with a mystic roll, now presides at the ticket office.†
- At some distance from the railroad Mr. Smooth-it-away pointed to a large, antique edifice, which, he observed, was a tavern of long standing, and had formerly been a noted stopping-place for pilgrims.†
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- The next remarkable object was a large edifice, constructed of moss-grown stone, but in a modern and airy style of architecture.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(edifice) a building or structure -- especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)