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

Out in the glass belvedere, like superior goods on display, taking it easy while every one else worked, I saw a group of young matrons of the smart set, Ina Vandeman among them, drinking tea.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by MacGowan, Alice

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