parvis
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thumb|Part of St. Peter's Square in Rome, the parvis of [[St. Peter's Basilica]] thumb|Colonnade of St. Peter's Square
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- Parvises
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- Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
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- Etymology
- Parvis of St Paul's Cathedral
- Late English use
- Examples of English parvises
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
thumb|Part of St. Peter's Square in Rome, the parvis of [[St. Peter's Basilica]] thumb|Colonnade of St. Peter's Square
A parvis or parvise is the open space in front of and around a cathedral or church, especially when surrounded by either colonnades or porticoes, as at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It is thus a church-specific type of forecourt, front yard or apron.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “parvis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.