PARVISE See also:

• PARVISE PARVIS

PARVIS  , Or PARVYSE, an open space surrounded by an See also:

• ENCEINTE (Lat. in, within, cinctus, girdled; to be distinguished from the word meaning " pregnant," from in, not, and cinctus, i.e. with girdle loosened)

enceinte or See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone See also:

• PARAPET (Ital. parapetto, Fr. parapet, from para, imperative of Ital. porare, to cover, defend, and petto, breast, Lat. pectus; the German word is Brustwehr)

parapet in front of buildings, particularly cathedrals or large churches; probably first used to keep the See also:

• PEOPLE

people from pressing on and confusing the marshalling of processions . The word " See also:

• PARVIS, PARVISE

parvis " is See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and is a corruption of See also:

• LAT

Lat. paradisus, an enclosed See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden or See also:

• PARADISE (Gr. lrap6BEwos)

paradise (q.v.), which is sometimes also used instead of " parvis." The Lat. paradisus is defined by Du Cange (Glossarium, s.v.) as See also:

• ATRIUM (either from ater, black, referring to the blackening of the walls from the smoke of the hearth, or from the Greek aiOpeov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated)

atrium porticibus circumdatum ante aedes sacras . At St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's in See also:

• LONDON

London the " parvis " was a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place where lawyers met for consultation .