pavilion
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- //pəˈvɪljən//
An ornate tent.
sostantivo
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An ornate tent.
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A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
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A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
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The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.
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A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
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The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
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The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
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The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
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A flag, ensign, or banner.
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A flag, ensign, or banner. A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
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An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
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A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]
Etimologia
From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon. Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
verbo
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To furnish with a pavilion.
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To put inside a pavilion.
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figuratoTo enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
Forme
- plurale
- pavilions
- passato
- pavilioned
- participio passato
- pavilioned
- participio presente
- pavilioning
- 3ª persona singolare
- pavilions