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Westminster Abbey

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Noun1.Westminster Abbey - a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery; "Westminster Abbey is the scene of the coronations of almost all English monarchs"; "Distinguished English subjects are buried in Westminster Abbey"
City of Westminster, Westminster - a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey
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I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation, contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
He is convinced, of course, that he is destined for Westminster Abbey.
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