rotunda

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A few fragments of the rotunda were the only trace left of the temple of Diana The vapour baths of Nero, hewn out of the rock, consist of several passages, into which it is impossible to penetrate far on account of the heat.

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  1. noun A circular building, especially one with a dome.
  2. noun A large area with a high ceiling, as in a hotel lobby.
  3. noun A large round room.

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  • At the end of the lake closest to the house was a rotunda, also designed as a resting shelter. —  Mary Balogh - Daring Masquerade.html
  • That would be the rotunda, the place where orchestras played and famous singers performed and people danced, the place where the more wealthy patrons sat in boxes and ate and drank while they enjoyed the spectacles around them. —  Mary Balogh - Silent Melody
  • In the courthouse rotunda, the New Amsterdam vice presidents and executives clustered together, enjoying their relief. —  Mistress of Justice
  • Bravely it swept onto the balcony under the rotunda, and into the elevators, and downstairs to the lobby Uh, uh. —  PARTONE
  • You parked on the side Yes They cut across the rotunda, the sound of their footfalls soaring up three stories. —  TAMI HOAG
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  1. Italian rotonda, from feminine of rotondo, round, from Latin rotundus; see rotund.

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  1. Formerly also rotundo (also rotund, from French rotonde); from Italian rotonda = Spanish Portuguese rotunda, from Middle Latin *rotunda (sc. domus), a round building, from Latin rotunda, feminine of rotundus, round: see rotund, round.
 

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