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Answer for the clue "Jefferson Memorial feature ", 6 letters:
cupola
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Word definitions for cupola in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Italian cupola , from Late Latin cupula "a little tub," diminutive of Latin cupa "cask, barrel" (see cup (n.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome. 2 (context military English) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting a roof in the form of a dome
Usage examples of cupola.
Facing the Duomo is the baptistery, which at first served as a church, a sort of octagonal temple surmounted by a cupola, built, doubtless, after the model of the Pantheon of Rome, and which, according to the testimony of a contemporary bishop, already in the eighth century projected upward the pompous rotundities of its imperial forms.
Reman, Emme, Loes, Caul, and some of the others who help Hannah with the cupola and who are especially good at building things.
And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.
On the far side of the court they found a rambling old house made of fieldstone, with delicate leaded windows and tiny little cupolas.
There were cupolas here and there on the skeleton where the Lobsters hooked into fluidic computers or sheltered themselves from solar storms and ring-system electrofluxes.
As he gunned his vehicle out into the street, the most intense light source was the rope of cyan bolts ripping skyward from the cupola of the leading tank.
Returning to the part where we had seen windows, we opened the shutters of one of them, and the light of the stars only shewed us: the cupolas and the depths beneath them.
He found about a cupola a terrace which he had not earlier noticed, and on this terrace a hod of plaster, a trowel, and a ladder some seventy feet long.
The cupola of the church had fallen in, the ancient decorated iconostasis was smoldering, the vestments, psalters, icons already lay in ashes.
This was the last great structural member before the closing stone ring, or oculus, that would complete the cupola and serve as a base for the lantern.
The mute songstress of these deeds was a statue of Heroic Poetry who stood upon the cupola.
There was even a third floor, consisting of two unused rooms, topped by a decorative cupola.
They passed through a prosperous bourgeois neighbour hood, where the newly rich merchants bedizened their dwellings with ifilled and gilded cupolas, silvered wrought iron lace work and hideous painted statuary.
But often during the long hot evenings, if Marcos were away for the night, Sabrina would visit the Gulab Mahal, and as the moon rose into the dusty twilight the women would sit out on the flat roofs of the zenana quarter looking out across the minarets and white roof-tops, the green trees and gilded cupolas of the evil, beautiful, fantastic city of Lucknow, while Aziza Begum cracked jokes and shook with silent laughter, stuffed her mouth with strange sweetmeats from a silver platter, or told long, long stories of her youth and of kings and princes and nobles of Oudh these many years in their graves.
Soon I would see the golden cupolas and brass weathercocks of Nonsuch House rising into the smoke-filled London sky.