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pavilion 1. a summerhouse or other decorative shelter 2. a building or temporary structure, esp one that is open and ornamental, for housing exhibitions 3. a large ornate tent, esp one with a peaked top, as used by medieval armies 4. one of a set of buildings that together form a hospital or other large institution pavilion [pə′vil·yən] (lapidary) The portion of a faceted gemstone below the girdle. Also known as base. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Laboratory and Yellow Room are in a pavilion at the end of the park, about three hundred metres (a thousand feet) from the chateau. In the pavilion of the orangery, of course, in front of the pavilion where the guard is. Harling and Antonia were preserving cherries, when I stopped one morning to tell them that a dancing pavilion had come to town. |
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