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pearly gates

noun

Etymology

After the description in Revelation 21:21.

Definitions

  1. The entrance way to Heaven.

    • When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls / And pearly gates behold?
    • This immense wealth; this gilded splendor; this profusion of luxury; this exemption from toil; this life of ease; this sea of plenty; aye, what of it all? Are the pearly gates of happiness and sweet content flung open to such suitors?
    • The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases. Heaven to them was a serious business of pearly gates, harps, halos, and aërial flights on ambient pale clouds.

  2. Heaven itself.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of pearly gates.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA