belvederes

• “Prior to the Depression, Southern California architects drew on historic Mediterranean styles in creating a romantic, climactically appropriate ambience of picturesque belvederes and tourelles, elaborate wrought-iron gates, and interior courtyards cooled by fountains.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What George Lucas Wrought

• “On my most recent visit to France I got my fill of follies at Versailles where the gardens are littered with pavilions and belvederes.”

  Archive 2008-11-01

• “At the Letterman center, the water originates on one of two artificial promontories positioned along "view corridors," each of which aligns with Bernard Maybeck's 1915 Palace of Fine Arts. From these "stony belvederes" (the archaic, pastoral names of Halprin's features reflect his romantic streak), a man-made creek runs down to a small lagoon, following a conceptual path that would flow all the way to the Palace's pond were Gorgas Avenue not in the way.”

  Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives

• “Turrets, belvederes, and spires produced a serrated skyline.”

  The Dreaming Void

• “If Patrick were wallpaper, it would have curlescent, meandering vines, manicured gardens with topiary, voluptuous pink peonies, iridescent hummingbirds, peacocks, a few belvederes here and there and impressive amounts of gold.”

  He's Just...Dreamy, But Am I Dowdy? Dandies Prowl Our City

• “Through the bars of the gate he glimpsed ladies with parasols and gentlemen with cigars who strolled the snow-white palace of iron, of glass and iron and floating belvederes.”

  Simon & Schuster: At Swim, Two Boys

• “Most of what he saw of the manse was pure indulgence, totally non-functional: a wandering maze of gables, domes and belvederes.”

  The Grand Wheel

• “The lou generally referred to in poetry, however, is really a "pleasure-house-in-the-air," used as the Italians use their belvederes.”

  Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese

• “They have had new belvederes built in, and have given over the apartments looking on the Square and the Calle del Cristo to the Courts and the school.”

  Caesar or Nothing

• “The villa had two projecting wings with belvederes and roofed terraces, one of which connected with the author's study.”

  James Fenimore Cooper

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