palace

plural palaces

1. Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
2. A large and lavishly ornate residence.

   The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…].

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

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   On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at the palace she found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 293

3. A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.

present singular third person palaces · participle present palacing · participle past palaced · past palaced

1. archaicTo decorate or ornate.

   And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean.

   1921, Kenneth Morris, The Crest-Wave of Evolution

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   May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December, palaced in snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."

   1874, Benj. N. Martin, Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader

1. UKabbreviationellipsisball gamesEllipsis of Crystal Palace Football Club (“a football team from London”).
2. PhilippinesabbreviationellipsisjournalismEllipsis of Malacañang Palace.