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Westminster Abbey

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Westminster Abbey
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(Placenames / Named Buildings) a Gothic church in London: site of a Benedictine monastery (1050-65); scene of the coronations of almost all English monarchs since William I
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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.
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They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.
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He is convinced, of course, that he is destined for Westminster Abbey.
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