vista
/ˈvɪstə/ noun C1- A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
- A site offering such a view.
- A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination. · a vista of pleasure to come· dim vistas of the past
Plural vistas
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It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
A part of the good abbé’s words, however, were wholly incomprehensible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener, and gave fantastic glimpses of new horizons, enabling him justly to estimate the delight an intellectual mind would have in following one so richly gifted as Faria along the heights of truth, where he was so much at home.
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