firmament
/ˈfɝməmənt/ nom C2En français : firmament
- The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.
- The field or sphere of an activity or interest. · the international fashion firmament
- In the geocentric Ptolemaic system, the eighth celestial sphere which carried the fixed stars; (countable, by extension) any celestial sphere.
- The abode of God and the angels; heaven.
Pluriel firmaments
Dans la bibliothèque
By degrees the wind abated, vast gray clouds rolled towards the west, and the blue firmament appeared studded with bright stars.
He then closed his eyes as children do in order that they may see in the resplendent night of their own imagination more stars than are visible in the firmament; then he re-opened them, and stood motionless with amazement.
Around this opening, which had, possibly, for ages permitted a free entrance to the brilliant moonbeams that now illumined the vast pile, grew a quantity of creeping plants, whose delicate green branches stood out in bold relief against the clear azure of the firmament, while large masses of thick, strong fibrous shoots forced their way through the chasm, and hung floating to and fro, like so many waving strings.
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