Usually means: Kneeling prayer chair with shelf.
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  1. prie-dieu: Merriam-Webster
  2. prie-dieu: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prie-dieu: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prie-dieu, prie-dieu: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prie-dieu: Vocabulary.com
  6. prie-dieu, prie-Dieu: Wordnik
  7. prie-dieu: Wiktionary
  8. prie-dieu: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. prie-dieu: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. prie-dieu: Dictionary.com
  11. Prie-dieu: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. prie-dieu: Rhymezone
  13. prie-dieu: FreeDictionary.org
  14. prie-dieu: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. prie-dieu: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. prie-dieu: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prie-dieu)

▸ noun:  A piece of furniture on which someone can pray, consisting of a cushioned area to kneel on, with a built-in ledge for books.

Similar:
retable, mercy chair, accubitum, pulpit, lectern, altar, settle, couch, sit upon, deacon's bench, more...

Opposite:
kneeler, footstool, hassock

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Similar:
retable, mercy chair, accubitum, pulpit, lectern, altar, settle, couch, sit upon, deacon's bench, more...

Opposite:
kneeler, footstool, hassock



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