belvedere

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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 Norway, Arthur H.

Above a heavy cornice with prominent modillions springs the hipped roof, pierced on both sides by two handsome dormers and surmounted by a long, beautifully balustraded belvedere.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank