pavilion

/pəˈvɪljən/ · noun

Meaning

An ornate tent.
A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
To furnish with a pavilion.
To put inside a pavilion.
To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").

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