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  • 91Craigie Castle, Ayrshire — Craigie Castle Craigie, South Ayrshire, Scotland UK grid reference NS4084831699 …

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  • 92Santa Maria de Ovila — Santa María de Óvila Ruins of Santa María de Óvila in Spain …

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  • 93NOTRE DAME, PARIS —    Notre Dame is perhaps the best known Gothic cathedral in the world, probably due to its location on a small island in the Seine River in central Paris called the Île de la Cité. It has been central to many prominent historical events,… …

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  • 94camera — [18] Latin camera originally meant ‘vaulted room’ (a sense preserved in the Radcliffe Camera, an 18th century building housing part of Oxford University library, which has a vaulted roof). It came from Greek kamárā ‘vault, arch’, which is… …

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  • 95vault — vault1 [ vɔlt ] noun count 1. ) an underground room where people s bodies are buried, especially under a church a ) a strongly protected room in a bank where money, gold, etc. is kept 2. ) a curved structure that supports or forms a roof,… …

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  • 96alcove — (n.) 1670s, vaulted recess, from Fr. alcôve (17c.), from Sp. alcoba, from Arabic al qobbah the vaulted chamber, from Semitic base q b b to be bent, crooked, vaulted …

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  • 97camera — 1708, vaulted building, from L. camera vaulted room (Cf. It. camera, Sp. camara, Fr. chambre), from Gk. kamara vaulted chamber, from PIE root *kam to arch. The word also was used early 18c. as a short form of Mod.L. camera obscura dark chamber (a …

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  • 98vault — [[t]vɔ͟ːlt[/t]] vaults, vaulting, vaulted 1) N COUNT A vault is a secure room where money and other valuable things can be kept safely. Most of the money was in storage in bank vaults... The gold recovered so far is being held in a vault at a… …

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  • 99arch — ɑːtʃ n. vault, upward curve; entrance with a curved top, vaulted doorway v. make arched, make vaulted, build an arch; be arched, be vaulted adj. shrewd, cunning, sly; chief, main, principal pref. chief, principal …

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  • 100archer — arch·er || ɑːtʃə n. bowman, one proficient in the use of bow and arrows ɑːtʃ n. vault, upward curve; entrance with a curved top, vaulted doorway v. make arched, make vaulted, build an arch; be arched, be vaulted adj. shrewd, cunning, sly; …

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