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Greek stone semicircular bench
Answer for the clue "Greek stone semicircular bench ", 6 letters:
exedra
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion. 2 (context by extension English) A curved bench with a high back.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exedra \Ex"e*dra\ ([e^]ks"[-e]*dr[.a]), n.; pl. Exedr[ae] ([e^]ks"[-e]*dr[=e]). [L., fr. Gr 'exe`dra; 'ex out + "e`dra seat.] (Class. Antiq.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats. (Arch.) The projection of any part of a building in ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In architecture , an exedra is a semicircular recess or plinth , often crowned by a semi-dome , which is sometimes set into a building's façade or is free-standing. The original Greek sense ( ἐξέδρα , a seat out of doors) was applied to a room that opened ...
Usage examples of exedra.
They found an empty exedra, and the woman showed no hesitation in ordering refreshments.
Greece delighted to task their skill in adorning the porticoes and exedrae of an Athenian.
Along the quays the doctors walked, and in little exedrae open to the sun, students feeling themselves poised on the ripe end of time and heirs of all the ages discussed the latest heresies or weighed Plato against the doctors of the church.