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- noun Plural form of
exhedra .
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In a few moments the three were seated together, immediately above the fragrant borders of a rose-farm, on the marble bench of one of the exhedrae for the use of foot-passengers at the roadside, from which they could overlook the grand, earnest prospect of the
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866
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a colonnade, which again opened on to the great 'Place', a square enclosure some 850 ft. wide north and south, by 650 ft. east and west, [142] surrounded by a colonnade on all four sides, with exhedrae, or semicircular recesses.
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