Crossword clues for belvedere
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belvedere \Bel`ve*dere"\, n. [It., fr. bello, bel, beautiful + vedere to see.] (Arch.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"raised turret atop a house," 1590s, from Italian belvedere, literally "a fair sight," from bel, bello "beautiful" (from Latin bellus "beautiful, fair;" see bene-) + vedere "a view, sight" (see vista). Pronunciation perhaps influenced by the French form of the word. So called because it was used for viewing the grounds.
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) A turret or other raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area.
WordNet
n. densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn [syn: summer cypress, burning bush, fire bush, fire-bush, Bassia scoparia, Kochia scoparia]
a gazebo sited to command a fine view
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1059
Land area (2000): 0.535411 sq. miles (1.386708 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.886093 sq. miles (4.884958 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.421504 sq. miles (6.271666 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05164
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.874559 N, 122.465823 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94920
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Housing Units (2000): 2430
Land area (2000): 3.919878 sq. miles (10.152438 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005628 sq. miles (0.014577 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.925506 sq. miles (10.167015 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05410
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.531985 N, 81.943338 W
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Wikipedia
Belvédère is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. The village of Belvédère is an attractive village sitting above the river Vésubie at the entrance of the Gordolasque valley.
A belvedere or belvidere (from Italian for "fair view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. While a belvedere may be built in the upper part of a building the actual structure can be of any form, whether a turret, a cupola, or an open gallery. Or it may be a separate pavilion in a garden, or the term may be used for a paved terrace with a good viewpoint, but no actual building.
It may also be used for a whole building, as in the Belvedere, Vienna, a huge palace, or Belvedere Castle, a folly in New York.
On the hillside above the Vatican Palace, Antonio Pollaiuolo built a small pavilion (casino in Italian) named the palazzetto or the Belvedere for Pope Innocent VIII. Some years later Donato Bramante linked the Vatican with the Belvedere, under a commission from Pope Julius II by creating the Cortile del Belvedere ("Courtyard of the Belvedere"), in which stood the Apollo Belvedere, among the most famous of antique sculptures. This began the fashion in the 16th century for the belvedere.
Belvedere is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in May 1958. It shows a plausible-looking belvedere building that is actually an impossible object, modeled after a Necker cube—and a figure in the image is studying such a cube.
The Forte di Belvedere or Fortezza di Santa Maria in San Giorgio del Belvedere (often called simply Belvedere) is a fortification in Florence, Italy.
Belvedere is a Canadian skate punk band formed in 1995.
Belvedere, also known as Belvidere, was built near Charles Town, West Virginia by Magnus Tate II in 1807. The Federal style mansion is situated at the end of a tree-lined driveway and commands a sweeping view of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Belvedere is a single panel comic strip created by George Webster Crenshaw which ran from 1962 to 1995. The star of the strip is a white dog with black spots. As of at least 2009, reprints of the strip were distributed by Johansen International Features.
Belvedere is a brand of Polish rye vodka produced and distributed by LVMH. It is named after Belweder, the Polish presidential palace, whose illustration appears on its bottles. It is produced exclusively in Poland in the town of Żyrardów and has worldwide distribution. The brand was launched in the United States in 1996 as a "luxury" liquor and is marketed as the world's first 'super premium vodka.'
Belvedere is a 2010 drama film from Bosnia and Herzegovina, directed by Ahmed Imamovic. The film was selected as the Bosnian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Belvedere is a quartier of Casablanca, Morocco.
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Usage examples of "belvedere".
Maimed females and children howling as they tried to stuff intestines back into their body cavities were necessary, as surely as the Molt in the ballroom of the Tribunal Palace in Belvedere had been, stooping behind the weight of his power gun--every shot turning a gay costume into burning, bloody rags.
Belvedere had a name, kind of scripted on its side, you know how them gearheads do.
Strave of the Guardian Cities, a place of the grandest architectural exuberance, no two structures remotely alike, great palaces chock-a-block defying one another in their glorious excess, profusions of towers and pavilions and belvederes and steeples and belfries and cupolas and rotundas and porticos sprouting madly everywhere like giant mushrooms.
Kenneth Payne, neuropsychologist and fellow here at the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research.
You know, madame, how fond his Majesty is of the Louis Treize Belvedere, and the telescope erected by this monarch,--one of the best ever made hitherto.
From rustling foliage where cuckoos call On summer evenings, stands a belvedere, Buff-hued, of antique plaster, overrun With flowering vines and weatherworn by rain and sun.
The waiter, despite his youth, had already perfected the art of bemused superiority endemic to such establishments as The Foxfire Grille, located on Belvedere Street in the heart of the Mount Adams District.
The belvedere was well sited to give a semicircular panorama to the horizon, and the Beta androids appeared like minute dots on a clockface.
By the light of the single bare bulb my 1960 Chevrolet Belvedere glowed like an egg under murky water.
I got out of the Belvedere and we ran through the shrinking space between the gate and the fence.
I sighed as I settled behind the steering wheel of the Belvedere feeling like a weathered old kite hanging from a telephone wire, still a little gaudy but not much use to anybody.
As my Belvedere rolled down the long driveway, I thought about all the clues Mr.
I rolled up the windows, cracked the door of the Belvedere, and got out.
This was in the Belvedere, the country house on the height overlooking Weimar, where the grand-ducal family spend the month of May, and where the stranger finds himself amid overwhelming associations of Goethe, although the place is so full of relics and memorials of the owners.
In the offices of Belvedere Post-Production the air-conditioning was off.