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archway [ˈɑːtʃˌweɪ] n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a passageway or entrance under an arch or arches ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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She looked, as she said those words, towards an archway at the further end of the room, closed by curtains of purple velvet. It struck me as a very strange thing that a river of clear fresh water, which gushed out from the mountain not far from where we stood, instead of flowing into the sea as rivers generally do, turned off sharply, and flowed out of sight under a natural archway of rock, and when I went to examine it more closely I found that inside the cave the walls were thick with diamonds, and rubies, and masses of crystal, and the floor was strewn with ambergris. We stopped at the principal hotel, which was in the market-place; it was a very large one; we drove under an archway into a long yard, at the further end of which were the stables and coachhouses. |
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