Nôtre Dame
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Nôtre Dame.
Senses: examples: text: At length, when matters were conſidered ſufficiently ripe, a council, compoſed of about forty conſtitutional or intruding biſhops, and as many prieſts of the ſame deſcription, was held at the church of Nôtre Dame, the body of which was filled with an immenſe crowd of ſpectators. […] The Council then adjourned to deliberate in ſeparate diviſions at Saint Sulpice, but their decrees were promulgated at Nôtre Dame.
ref: 1801, The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1801, page 257:
text: The famous convention, known by the appellation of the Concordat, concluded between the first consul and the pope,* received, in the month of April, 1802, its final ratification from the French legislative body, by a majority of two hundred and twenty-eight to twenty-one voices. And this imposing event, in conjunction with the definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and France, was celebrated with extraordinary magnificence by a solemn Te Deum, at the cathedral church of Nôtre Dame, and grand illuminations in the city and vicinity of Paris.
ref: 1817, Edward Baines, History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; Comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France During That Period, volume I, London, page 376:
text: In the next church I visited, Nôtre Dame, which is better known than the cathedral, as containing the bodies and tombs of Charles the Bold and his daughter, Anne of Burgundy, there is no sculpture equal to this majestic figure; but in the sister branch of the fine arts—painting, Nôtre Dame possesses a chef d’œuvre from the pencil of Rubens, which is indeed admirable.
ref: 1838, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XVII, page 440:
text: The Sainte-Chapelle was Gothic art carried to an ultimate extreme: the church transformed into light. Such churches were immensely costly, and the experiment was never repeated. Nor would it have been possible to build a great cathedral on the same model. Nôtre Dame, though largely designed by the same architects, suffered from its immense size, and not even the great rose windows on the transepts could flood it with light.
ref: 1972, Robert Payne, The World of Art:
text: There Nôtre Dame gains from our notion of colossal height as inhering in Gothic cathedrals and primarily in them, whether this is something we have picked up from our culture or whether it is experienced directly.
ref: 1990, Art and Pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque: Theatrical spectacle and spectacular theatre, page 398:
text: Nidarosdomen is a chatedral^([sic]) that whose construction was started some 800 or 900 years ago, and has a certain resemblance to the Nôtre Dame in Paris.
ref: 2001 December 13, Knut W. Jakset, “Another Royal Wedding in Norway”, in alt.fifty-plus.friends (Usenet), message-ID <UV1S7.2673$RS2.55361@juliett.dax.net>:
text: I have since found out that the organ of Nôtre Dame, Paris, some components of which date back to the 13th century, is now totally computerised, the wiring and relays of the 1930s renovation having been chewed up by mice and affected by dust and candle smoke. It can even be played remotely from a computer or MIDI keyboard many kilometres away.
ref: 2003 June 25, MartinS, “OT was Re: more todd gay rumours”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet), message-ID <3ef9dfdf$0$236$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of Notre Dame (“Notre-Dame de Paris”).