What is "gondolas"

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And they had also brought pianos and guitars, and they played and sang operas, while the plebeian paper-lanterned gondolas from the suburbs and the back alleys crowded around to stare and listen.

In that shallow depression, three gondolas still lay on the cracked concrete.

Even at night, wearing sunglasses, he could see they did not have the swan-neck prows of real gondolas in Venice, but sported leering gargoyles as figureheads, hand-carved from wood, garishly painted, perhaps fearsome at one time but now cracked, weathered, and peeling.

When the ride had been in operation, those hooks had been concealed by water, contributing to the illusion that the gondolas were actually adrift.

Here, the gondolas had slipped free of the blunt hooks in the channel floor and, with a stomach-wrenching lurch, sailed down a hundred-and-fifty-foot incline, knifing into the pool below with a colossal splash that drenched the passengers up front, much to the delight of those fortunate—or smart—enough to get a seat in the back.

There, the gondolas had moved through a lake of water made to look like a lake of fire by clever lighting and bubbling air hoses that simulated boiling oil.

So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants.

However, when I observed that the other gondolas had sailed away, and my gondolier was preparing to go overboard, I stopped.

The gondola is painted black because in the zenith of Venetian magnificence the gondolas became too gorgeous altogether, and the Senate decreed that all such display must cease, and a solemn, unembellished black be substituted.

She pushed the boat into a group of tied up gondolas and small craft moored to poles at the water-door of the marble-faced mansion.

Then he went softly down the water-stairs and sneaked past old Minna's and Tonio's and Maria's empty gondolas all tied up at the bottom.

The gondolas stayed silent, their occupants tucked up in all the blankets they owned.

If the tide is out enough we can walk along the ledge around to where the gondolas are moored.

As soon as Lord Dorma's flotilla passed the mouth of the canal, the much larger flotilla of gondolas came following behind.

Naturally the old street traffic almost vanished, cabs, 'buses, and carts giving place to gondolas and steamboats.