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

He went to meet his guest, velvet cap in hand, and after a skirmish of compliments which proved an easy victory for Pasotti, Gilardoni returned to the belvedere with him.

From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Fogazzaro, Antonio

We found that the chapel was built upon an earlier foundation of stone taken from a fortification wall, and that later builders had made over the chapel into a belvedere.

From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams