cabana

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-- who didn't mind that we took shelter from the rain under her cabana -- chilled out.

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  1. noun A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool used as a bathhouse.
  2. noun A cabin or hut.

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  • He persisted until she replied in Cuban-accented Spanish that they could tell her themselves and directed them to a cabana area behind the house. —  Buchanan, Edna - Cold Case Squad (v1.0) (html).html
  • Walking nervously toward the cabana, another line from the poem popped into her head A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk upon the briny beach She shivered, remembering how the slaver's hands felt, finding that microseam in the ring-runner's bulkhead. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
  • She had waited there in the cabana, apart from the others, until the bartender had come to tell her the manager needed to see her. —  FSF,October2005
  • The liquor in the cabana could be locked away in wire-fronted cabinets, as it no doubt was; but the cabana itself could not be locked—it was too open and too flimsy, and there were restrooms there. —  FSF,October2005
  • When she left the cabana, a scratched and somewhat dirty Rick was striding down the beach toward her, grinning. —  FSF,October2005
 

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  1. Spanish cabaña, from Late Latin capanna, hut.
 

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