Notre Dame

 [noh-truh deym, dahm, noh-ter]  

No·tre Dame

   [noh-truh deym, dahm, noh-ter]
noun
1.
Also called Notre Dame de Paris  [Fr. naw-truh dam duh pa-ree] , a famous early gothic cathedral in Paris (started 1163).
2.
the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.
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Origin:
< French: our lady
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Notre Dame (ˈnəʊtrə ˈdɑːm, ˈnɒtrə, French nɔtrə dam)
 
—n
the early Gothic cathedral of Paris, on the Île de la Cité: built between 1163 and 1257

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"With a single companion, I soon found my way to the church of Notre Dame.... The Catholic are the only churches which I have seen worth remembering, which are not almost wholly profane. I do not speak only of the rich and splendid like this, but of the humblest of them as well. Coming from the hurrahing mob and the rattling carriages, we pushed aside the listed door of this church, and found ourselves instantly in an atmosphere which might be sacred to thought and religion, if one had any. There sat one or two women who had stolen a moment from the concerns of the day, as they were passing; but, if there had been fifty people there, it would still have been the most solitary place imaginable. They did not look up at us, nor did one regard another.... I was impressed by the quiet, religious atmosphere of the place. It was a great cave in the midst of a city; and what were the altars and the tinsel but the sparkling stalactites, into which you entered in a moment, and where the still atmosphere and the sombre light disposed to serious and profitable thought? Such a cave at hand, which you can enter any day, is worth a thousand of our churches which are open only Sundays, hardly long enough for an airing, and then filled with a bustling congregation,—a church where the priest is the least part, where you do your own preaching, where the universe preaches to you and can be heard. I am not sure but this Catholic religion would be an admirable one if the priest were quite omitted. I think that I might go to church myself some Monday, if I lived in a city where there was such a one to go to.... As for the Protestant churches, here or elsewhere, they did not interest me, for it is only as caves that churches interest me at all, and in that respect they were inferior."
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