gazebo

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Definitions (5)

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

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  • 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
  • Approximately five yards from the gazebo, the cardinal stopped them. —  Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • 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
  • I saw the gazebo, a giant hexagon with a cone-shaped roof extending from a wooden deck, around the other side of the house. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • New sandpits and a gazebo were among other improvements at the school.
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Humorously formed from gaze, simulating the form of a L. verb of the 2d conjugation, in the future indicative 1st person sing, (like videbo, ‘I shall see’), as if meaning ‘l shall gaze.’
 

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