Definitions for prie-dieu

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Spelling: [pree-dyoo ; French pr
IPA: /ˈpriˈdyʊ; French priˈdyœ/

Prie-Dieu is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in prie-dieu (-deeiipru).

Definitions for prie-dieu

noun

  1. a piece of furniture for kneeling on during prayer, having a rest above, as for a book.

Origin of prie-dieu

1750-60; French: literally, pray God

Examples for prie-dieu

Again she sank down, her head supported by her prie-dieu chair.

Then he came to stand, leaning on the prie-dieu, facing her.

He had made the betrothed couple an offer of a Gothic prie-dieu.

Know then that I have found a white rose on the cushion of my prie-dieu.

But most astounding of all were the contents of the widows' prie-dieu.

Here there was a prie-dieu in a corner, and above it a crucifix.

He drops on his knees at a prie-dieu; there he finds a note, which he reads.

Slowly he lifts his prayer-book from the prie-dieu and holds it droopingly.

Hes not one who goes often to Mass or wears out the prie-dieu, said he.

Helene trembled, Gaston took her back to her prie-dieu, where she knelt.

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