PARVIS, PARVISE

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PARVIS, PARVISE , Or PARVYSE, an open space surrounded by an enceinte or

stone

parapet

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

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

people

PEOPLE

from pressing on and confusing the marshalling of processions. The word " parvis " is

French

and is a corruption of Lat. paradisus, an enclosed

garden

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)

paradise

PARADISE (Gr. lrap6BEwos)

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

atrium

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)

porticibus circumdatum ante aedes sacras. At St

Paul

PAUL
PAUL (PAULUS)

's in London the " parvis " was a

place

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

where lawyers met for consultation.

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