covered building, Civil reunion place open to the public; a Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory; a Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance
the guild of legal clerks of the Paris court system under the pre-revolutionary French monarchy, from among whom legal representatives (procureurs) were recruited; basoche