gazebo

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  1. noun A freestanding, roofed, usually open-sided structure providing a shady resting place.
  2. noun A belvedere.

GNU Webster's 1913

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  • Approximately five yards from the gazebo, the cardinal stopped them. —  Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
  • Even when she went to the gazebo, there were always people around the house, full - or part-time workers doing one job or another. —  Fat Tuesday
  • That night, he'd experienced a surge of lust that hadn't abated even when he discovered that the ethereal goddess in the gazebo was the wife of Pinkie Duvall. —  Fat Tuesday
  • The party had spread out a bit in front of the gazebo, and the ex-nuns were staring hard, straining to glimpse the patriarch whom they might resist but whom they could not help but revere: their conditioning would allow no other response. —  Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • New sandpits and a gazebo were among other improvements at the school.
 

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  1. Origin unknown.

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/ (gə-zāˈbō, -zēˈ-)/
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