- plural of nave.
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Mr. Naves said the leaders never abandoned CQD until SEAL-connected MMA gyms started opening.
From Washington Times • Apr. 10, 2016
Another young farmer named Derek Naves has a promising stubble after four months of treatment.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As a memorial of our people's having touched at the same harbour, Captain Cook wrote, as follows, on the other side of the parchment: Naves Resolution et Discovery de Rege Magnae Britanniae, Decembris, 1776.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew
While some vapours allow the Naves a comparatively free passage, the faintest mixture of other vapours causes a deflection of the magnetic needle.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
Naves and transepts were not often failures; facades and even towers and fleches are invariably more or less successful because they are more or less balanced, mathematical, calculable products of reason and thought.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry