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/pɹiːˈdjəː/ · noun
A piece of furniture on which someone can pray, consisting of a cushioned area to kneel on, with a built-in ledge for books..
Leaning her childish face and full chin on the shelf of the prie-Dieu, her eyes fixed, she laughed, out of some hidden capacity, some lost subterranean humour [...].
thinking to improve his hour, he took to kneeling at a prie-dieu and ventured upon some propitiatory prayers to the Virgin which might serve as a sort of scaffolding to the more important confession which was to follow.
At her prie-dieu, she read in a calm voice the prayers for the dying.
Use prie-dieu when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prie-dieu means A piece of furniture on which someone can pray, consisting of a cushioned area to kneel on, with a built-in ledge for books..
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Leaning her childish face and full chin on the shelf of the prie-Dieu, her eyes fixed, she laughed, out of some hidden capacity, some lost subterranean humour [...].
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