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valley
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noun (plural valleys)
  1. An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
  2. The area which drains into a river.
  3. Any structure resembling 1, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
vault
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noun
  1. An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
  2. A structure resembling a vault, especially (poetic) that formed by the sky.
    • 1985, God said, "Let there be a through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two." " Genesis 1:6 (New Jerusalem Bible)
      1. An enclosed area covered with an arched roof, especially an underground room used for burial, or to store valuables, wine etc.
verb
  1. (context, transitive, or, intransitive) To jump or leap over (something).
vaulted
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adjective
  1. (architecture): A style of ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style.
vaulting
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noun
  1. The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction
  2. A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group
    1. The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line
verb
  1. (present participle of, vault)
adjective
  1. Leaning upward or over
  2. Exaggerated or overreaching
  3. performing
verge
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noun
  1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  2. An edge or border.
  3. (obsolete) A male rod, phallus
  4. (metaphore) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen
I was on the verge of tears.
verb (verges, verging, verged, )
  1. (intransitive) To come very close; to border; to approach.
Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
vestibule
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noun
  1. a passage, hall, or room between the outer door and the interior of a building
    1. (scifi) A gateway to another dimension.
vestry
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noun
  1. A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes; a sacristy
    • The choirboys change into their cassocks in the
      1. A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish
    • The meets the first Tuesday every month
via
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noun
  1. A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
  2. (electronics) A small hole in a printed-circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
Victorian
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noun
  1. A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
adjective (wikipedia, Victorian era)
  1. Of, or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or of that period
  2. Of, or displaying the supposed standards or ideals of morality of that period
  3. Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period
  4. Of, or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia
villa
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noun
  1. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
  2. (UK) A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
  3. In ancient Rome, a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
volute
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noun
  1. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
  2. (zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
  3. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the (super)family Volutidae.
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