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n. - A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.

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  • In the apsis was a mosaic which represented the Blessed Trinity, and of which in 1512 some remnants were still found.
  • The east choir with the 1830s high altar; the rather interesting apsis painting was added in 1928:
  • When this apsis, therefore, of Mars shall appear in Virgo, who shall expect less than a strange catastrophe of human affairs in the commonwealth, monarchy, and kingdom...
  • The spire of Notre Dame and the apsis may be seen up
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