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What is a parvis?

What is a parvis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.
  2. A portico surrounding such a space.
  3. The porch of a church, or the room over it.
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The 7500 square metre piazza, to which the parvis is linked, is calculated to cater for a crowd of 15 000 people.
The canons for whom these beautiful homes were constructed had only to cross the parvis to enter the cathedral.
She nodded at parvis with the look of triumph of a child who has successfully worked out a difficult puzzle.
The parvis was filled with a thick smoke, which the musketry streaked with flame.
At the north end of the composition, in front of the cathedral is a new parvis which is intended to be a place of congregation and recreation.
Thanks to this thicket of pikes and arquebuses, the parvis was empty.

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