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PEW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
Synonyms:
church bench; pew
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pew" is a kind of...):
bench (a long seat for more than one person)
Context examples:
You say that there was a gentleman in the pew.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here is our pew in the church.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But you may imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the first pew.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As I passed his pew on the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of my walking so proudly and lovingly down the aisle with my sweet wife upon my arm, through a mist of half-seen people, pulpits, monuments, pews, fonts, organs, and church windows, in which there flutter faint airs of association with my childish church at home, so long ago.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When he told us of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride’s manner, of so transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very significant allusion to claim-jumping—which in miners’ parlance means taking possession of that which another person has a prior claim to—the whole situation became absolutely clear.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What a high-backed pew!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This waiter, who was middle-aged and spare, looked for help to a waiter of more authority—a stout, potential old man, with a double chin, in black breeches and stockings, who came out of a place like a churchwarden's pew, at the end of the coffee-room, where he kept company with a cash-box, a Directory, a Law-list, and other books and papers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
