Pavilion
[pə'vɪljən] or [pə'vɪlɪən]
Definition
(n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
(n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
(n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
(n.) Same as Tent (Her.)
(n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
(n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
(v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Tent.[2]. (Anat.) Auricle, external ear.
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Definition
n. a tent: an ornamental building often turreted or domed: (mil.) a tent raised on posts: a canopy or covering: the outer ear: a flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.—v.t. to furnish with pavilions: to shelter as with a tent.—n. Pavil′ion-roof a roof sloping equally on all sides.
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Examples
- The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Amy's admirer, Boultby, was one of our first visitors, and then Lords Hertford and Lowther, who were both on a visit at the pavilion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Baldwin made a deep obeisance, and retired with his companions; and the Disinherited Knight entered the pavilion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- One evening, when His Majesty had a party of ladies and gentlemen at the pavilion, we concluded that Lord Hertford would not be able to leave it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We ate in pavilions on the sand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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