belvedere

Example Sentences

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At the top of the house is a small belvedere for viewing the countryside.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2016

The film opens, fittingly enough, with Miles thundering across the countryside on horseback, and ends with her dying on her back in a belvedere bathed in moonlight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Broadway has recently been devoid of the sort of play which is chiefly concerned with elegant seductions in a belvedere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surmounting the hip roof is a square superstructure of wood, paneled and painted white, above which is a low octagonal belvedere platform with a huge, round balustrade.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

This appearance was rather that of a studio, because of a skylight which filled the middle of the high ceiling, where the belvedere was.

From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice