nave
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- n the central area of a church
- While President Carter, former President Ford, Vice President Mondale, Chief Justice Burger and many other public figures listened from the nave, Kissinger paid tribute to the man .
- Shining in the sunlight that flooded the nave towered the figure that dominated the occasion (opposite).
- However, the nave door of the chapel portrays the Nativity, without using the motif of Virgin Child.