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pavilion

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ More than 1,400,000 people visited the Liberty Bell pavilion last year. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It features carnival rides, live bands and a dance pavilion along with booths for food, arts and crafts. ▪ New beachfront hotels ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pavilion is a type of building. It may also refer to:

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pavilion \Pa*vil"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pavilioned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pavilioning .] To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. The field pavilioned with his guardians bright. --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "large, stately tent," from Old French paveillon "large tent; butterfly" (12c.), from Latin papilionem (nominative papilio ) "butterfly, moth," in Medieval Latin "tent" (see papillon ); the type of tent so called on resemblance to wings. Meaning ...

Usage examples of pavilion.

But since we must needs part hastily, this at least I bid you, that ye abide with me for to-night, and the banquet in the great pavilion.

Pavilion Key climbed a tree with her baby and was compelled to let it go adrift from her arms.

Donald could just make out Arak and the others approaching the pavilion.

As soon as the group was ready, Arak led them across the lawn toward a hemispherical structure similar to the pavilion although on a much smaller scale.

High silken pavilions or colored marquees, shooting up from among the crowd of meaner dwellings, marked where the great lords and barons of Leon and Castile displayed their standards, while over the white roofs, as far as eye could reach, the waving of ancients, pavons, pensils, and banderoles, with flash of gold and glow of colors, proclaimed that all the chivalry of Iberia were mustered in the plain beneath them.

Marching out of the pavilion came the clan chiefs in order of precedence, Tram Bir nearly last.

He ascended the wall and stood for a long while at the window of his pavilion, staring out into the bleakness of the southern plains, until his mind was utterly void of thought and his aching body had yielded up some of the tautness of its tense muscles.

Casting before him a cabbalistic incantation that smashed the etheric lattice of the window, and seemed to carry him with it, out of the pavilion he sprang, snatching up as he hurtled through a sword of honed steel from the bench.

The carpet of the great Sheikh was placed before his pavilion, and, seated on it alone, and smoking a chibouque of date wood, the patriarch ruminated.

Ostrogoths, and hurried toward the Westenemy: over the ruins of the inner city, around the government quarter, close call on the Alexander-platz, guided through the Tiergarten by two bitches in heat, and damn near captured near the Zoological Gardens air raid shelter, where gigantic mousetraps were waiting for him, but he seven times circumambulated the Victory Column, shot down the Siegesallee, counseled by dog instinct, that wise old saw, joined a gang of civilian moving men, who were moving theater accessories from the exhibition pavilion by the radio tower to Nikolassee.

Pavilion Key and arrange for a clammer to take them home, up Chatham River.

The brocaded figure, cross-legged before the biggest pavilion, watched keepers and cowardies move about the tents and cages, listened to the soft animal sounds and breathed through bean-wide nostrils the pattern of smells that reveal the well-regulated menagerie.

Late the next morning Estrella stood at the edge of the Croisette, the street lined with huge tents with names like the American Pavilion and the British Pavilion, each tent packed with people drinking, schmoozing, and making deals, and tried to forget that her feet ached and her arms were sore.

One by one they faxed out, tapping the first of their codes onto the diskplate pad on the column in the center of the pavilion and flicking out of sight.

When someone faxed up to the rings on any of his or her normal four Twenties of life, you went to the nearest fax pavilion.