Crossword clues for pavilion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Pavilion \Pa*vil"ion\, n. [F. pavillon, fr. L. pavilio a butterfly, also, a tent, because spread out like a butterfly's wings.]
A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. ``[The] Greeks do pitch their brave pavilions.''
--Shak.(Arch.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
(Mil.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
(Her.) Same as Tent (Her.)
That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
(Anat.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
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A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
The pavilion of heaven is bare.
--Shelley.
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 "open building in a park, etc., used for shelter or entertainment" is attested from 1680s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 an ornate tent 2 a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place 3 a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc 4 (context cricket English) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals 5 a detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex 6 the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet 7 (context anatomy English) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle 8 (context anatomy English) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube. 9 (context military English) A flag, ensign, or banner. 10 (context heraldry English) A tent used as a bearing. 11 A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to furnish with a pavilion 2 (context transitive English) to put inside a pavilion 3 (context transitive figuratively English) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")
WordNet
n. large and often sumptuous tent [syn: marquee]
Wikipedia
In architecture a pavilion (from French pavillon, from Latin papilio) has several meanings. In architectural terminology it refers to a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often its function makes it an object of pleasure.
In the traditional architecture of Asia, palaces or other large houses may have one or more subsidiary pavilions that are either freestanding or connected by covered walkways, as in the Forbidden City, Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, and in the Red Fort and other buildings of Mughal architecture.
In another more specific meaning applied to large palaces, it refers to symmetrically placed subsidiary building blocks that appear to be attached to the each end of a main building block or to the outer ends of wings that extend from both sides of a central building block – the corps de logis. Such configurations provide an emphatic visual termination to the composition of a large building, akin to bookends.
Pavilion is a Canadian travel documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1967.
A pavilion is a type of building. It may also refer to:
Pavilion is a British business members' club co-founded by the UK property entrepreneur Jon Hunt and his daughter Emma. It opened under the name "Dryland" on London's Kensington High Street at the end of 2011, offering luxury work space.
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.