gazebo

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Ashley wants the gazebo, which is being dedicated in honor of her friend and her friend's daughter today at the park off NW 53rd Avenue in Gainesville, to also serve as a place that others can enjoy.

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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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  • She'd wink and say something like, 'The flowers down at the gazebo are lovely this year,' and then I'd know she'd be waiting there for me in an hour You said 'used to be.' —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • No bugs How could Qwilleran explain to this mountain man that the gazebo was for the cats, so they could enjoy the outdoors in safety? —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • Then Dewey Bee-chum arrived to work on the gazebo, and the problem was solved. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • She stood at the front window and stared down the hill at the gazebo, her hands clamped beneath her armpits to keep them still. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 02 - August 1994
  • By the time they reached the gazebo, their shared warmth and contentment had fully returned David opened a cabinet and pulled out a pair of injector sets. —  AnalogSFF,Jan/Feb2004
 

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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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