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Definition of Grandest
1. grand [adj] - See also: grand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandest
Literary usage of Grandest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The most conspicuous feature of the Euston Square Station is, of course, the
gateway, the grandest specimen of Grecian architecture perhaps existing in ..."
2. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"... with an added splendor, a love of classic beauty and a joy in the freest
expression of life. I mean Reims cathedral, the grandest work of Gothic art. ..."
3. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"Fortunately some were manufactured for foreign princes residing abroad, and of
these the two grandest examples are splendidly illustrated in Old, ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"But he were grandest i' th' choruses, waggin' his head, flinging his arms round
like a windmill, and singin' hisself black in the face. ..."
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