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pavilion
[ puh-vil-yuhn ]
noun
- a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits, etc., as in a park or fair.
- any of a number of separate or attached buildings forming a hospital or the like.
- Architecture. a projecting element of a façade, used especially at the center or at each end and usually treated so as to suggest a tower.
- a tent, especially a large and elaborate one.
- a small, ornamental building in a garden.
- Also called base. Jewelry. the part of a cut gem below the girdle.
verb (used with object)
- to shelter in or as if in a pavilion.
- to furnish with pavilions.
pavilion
/ pəˈvɪljən /
noun
- a building at a sports ground, esp a cricket pitch, in which players change
- a summerhouse or other decorative shelter
- a building or temporary structure, esp one that is open and ornamental, for housing exhibitions
- a large ornate tent, esp one with a peaked top, as used by medieval armies
- one of a set of buildings that together form a hospital or other large institution
- one of four main facets on a brilliant-cut stone between the girdle and the culet
verb
- to place or set in or as if in a pavilion
pavilioned in splendour
- to provide with a pavilion or pavilions
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- unpa·vilioned adjective
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Example Sentences
“Doctor Zhivago could not be handed out at the American pavilion, but the CIA had an ally nearby,” Finn and Couvée write.
The atmosphere at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea was redolent of these lobster palaces.
The piece suggests that Warhol was ultimately OK—and, quite possibly, pleased—with how the Pavilion affair went down.
Capital Skates (Mackenzie King Bridge) and Dows Lake Pavilion offer skate hire, Monday to Sunday, 9am/10am–10pm.
Art in its informative mode, in a video installation by Ali Kazma, in the Turkish pavilion of this year's Venice biennale.
He made right for the King's pavilion, and, shouting his war-cry, actually 'cut two or three of its cords.'
At the back of the pavilion there was a secret door in the panelling, the key of which the Consul always carried in his pocket.
The next time the fruit disappeared, I found a banana all smashed up in Kari's pavilion.
With one wild scream the monkey jumped off my shoulder, climbed up the pavilion post and disappeared on the roof.
It was honoured by the presence of their majesties, who partook of a banquet in a pavilion erected on the bridge.
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