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  • noun Plural form of cupola.

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Examples

  • A mansion block, redbrick, with gables and turrets and things she thought were called cupolas.

    Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

  • It has a fine dome, around which cluster several smaller structures, such as we should call cupolas in

    Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oliver Optic 1859

  • “I want to see you,” he says, holding on to the word “you” like a glider, moving across the pitch of towers and monuments and cupolas, west to where I stand in a shuttered upstairs window with the beige phone cord curled around one hand.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • The north end of the beach is largely residential where many of the homes resemble tropical palaces complete with colourful cupolas.

    Rincon de Guayabitos: an affordable paradise 2009

  • The north end of the beach is largely residential where many of the homes resemble tropical palaces complete with colourful cupolas.

    Rincon de Guayabitos: an affordable paradise 2009

  • With its dome and cupolas, it might be a Renaissance palace, yet the entire structure is supported by a reinforced concrete frame – one of the earliest anywhere in the world.5.

    Edwardian architecture: Five of the best examples of Edwardian neo-baroque 2011

  • The cupolas and minarets of Shellac-Veneer rise from the Plain of Lath, Ataxia's central plateau.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • “I want to see you,” he says, holding on to the word “you” like a glider, moving across the pitch of towers and monuments and cupolas, west to where I stand in a shuttered upstairs window with the beige phone cord curled around one hand.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • Wealthy traders built teak mansions topped with elaborate cupolas.

    Myanmar's Colonial Treasures Threatened 2010

  • On arrival, the guests hopped into golf carts to enter Patino's Moorish fantasy of white minarets, cupolas and twisted minarets lining cobbled paths to their lavish suites.

    Bob Schulman: The Magic of Manzanillo 2010

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