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
Broadway has recently been devoid of the sort of play which is chiefly concerned with elegant seductions in a belvedere.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In one corner of this courtyard a doorway gives admission to the belvedere, a little chamber with two windows, whereof one looks towards the plain behind Vesuvius, and the other gives upon Posilipo.
From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway
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 Herbert Adams Gibbons
