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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gazebo
noun
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▪ A gazebo heavy with the scent of jasmine or honeysuckle.
▪ From seaside gazebos to dank concrete bunkers, the production design is brilliant.
▪ Hairs from her mink coat had been found in the gazebo by the pond.
▪ He sat on the edge of the gazebo, wrung out the sock and dried himself as best he could.
▪ On warm sunny days, employees can eat in a sheltered outdoor courtyard near an old-fashioned gazebo.
▪ There was an ornate gazebo, large enough for dances, that had commemorated the success of a flavored lip balm.
▪ This advice also works for decks, gazebos and other outbuildings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gazebo

1752, supposedly a facetious formation from gaze + -bo, Latin first person singular future tense suffix (as in videbo "I shall see"), on model of earlier belvedere "cupola," from Italian bello verde "handsome sight." But perhaps rather a corruption of some oriental word.

Wiktionary
gazebo

n. A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.

WordNet
gazebo
  1. n. a small roofed building affording shade and rest [syn: summerhouse]

  2. [also: gazeboes (pl)]

Wikipedia
Gazebo

A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden or spacious public area.

Gazebo (musician)

Paul Mazzolini (born 18 February 1960), known as Gazebo, is an Italian musician. He has a legend status among fans of the Italo disco music style, a variation of 1980s Euro disco.

Gazebo (disambiguation)

A gazebo is a pavilion structure.

Gazebo may also refer to:

  • Gazebo (musician) (Paul Mazzolini; born 1960), Italian singer
  • Gazebo, an open source Robotics simulator
  • The Gazebo, a 1959 black comedy film starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds

Usage examples of "gazebo".

A squalid alameda where there stood a rotting brushwood gazebo and a few old iron benches.

After the accident they went ever since they were five year I behind on playing in the gazebo at the bottom of the grassy hill ane with their heads to the Archer place, Kurt and Vivian and Z gether, laughing and colluding as if nothing bad had ever haping ever would.

The ceiling-high bookshelves were stuffed with books: history books, nature books, sailing books, novels, and the cache of erotica that she and Cas had discovered on the top shelf one summer and had read aloud in the obscurity of the gazebo, only half understanding the words.

Roshanara would come to the gazebo at midnight, when the house of the Great Khansamah was quiet and all in it were sleeping.

As finished by other hands, the Qutub Minar, standing near the Iron Pillar, reached a height of 233 feet, 8 inches, not counting a gazebo installed on top but later removed.

Slaves were stringing garlands around the cornices of the little gazebos and shrines, pulling the ubiquitous, spiky leaves of dandelions from the miniature lawns, plucking pondweed from among the miles of waterlilies and setting up tables for buffets or platforms for musicians.

The latticed partitions reminded her of lace, and birdcages, and summery gazebos covered with vines.

Siamese from the gazebo, Qwilleran flicked the single switch that lighted the entire interior of the barn with uplights and down-lights.

Their head housekeeper, skinny and tough as a piece of barbed wire, placed both freckled hands on the gazebo railing and glared at Axminster Stoker.

As though thinking of Chester had conjured him up, Tess, watching from the gazebo, saw him stride purposefully through the garden, ignoring the riotous blooms all around him.

He went directly for the top, cutting corners on the zigzag, until he made it to a clearing where a round white gazebo on a single fluted column looked over the treetops like a dovecote on a pole.

I did, but I was standing in the gazebo at Elysian, which is a natural amplifier.

It was as if Elysian was dead, the gardens brown with frostburn, the light in the gazebo gone.

The Summoner was the directional point, much as the gazebo in Elysian had been.

Behind the house and the one garage was a minipark with broad sidewalks that ran through a carefully manicured grassy area to two separate gazebos.