noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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eastern
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The plan is that of a cross-domed basilica with nave, aisles, eastern apse and western atrium.
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It is surrounded by buildings, the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse .
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It was built with five domes and three eastern apses and has entrances on three sides.
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The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted.
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It has the single dome on four piers and three eastern apses .
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It is smaller and has five aisles and three eastern apses .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the east end is a rectangular choir and later apse .
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It is surrounded by buildings, the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse .
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Later designs further adapted the basilican plan with apses at both east and west ends and sometimes added short transepts.
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Standing in the huge apse , covered by a baldacchino, was the monument to Peter.
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The apse mosaics have a gold background and are of early type, being stiff and formal in design.
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The tall apse windows give better illumination to the east end.
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The western apse is of about the year 1000 and the narthex is later.
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These towers were transeptal or set just behind the apses and were polygonal or circular in form.