Belvedere vs Pavilion - What's the difference?
belvedere | pavilion |
(architecture) A turret or other raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area.
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, p. 57,
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 761:
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
(cricket) 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
(anatomy) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle
(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
* Shelley
to furnish with a pavilion
to put inside a pavilion
(figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")
As nouns the difference between belvedere and pavilion
is that belvedere is belvedere, gazebo while pavilion is an ornate tent.As a verb pavilion is
to furnish with a pavilion.belvedere
English
Noun
(en noun)- "One evening," she went on, "while Madame Orio was fast asleep in her little belvedere (it being the good old lady's habit to repair there to rest after a bottle or two of red Padua wine), Manette and Marton left the widow's house noiselessly in the Campo San Zobenigo, and made their way running towards the Piazza of St. Mark's."
- The most important thing, she reflected, as she stood on the balcony of the Mairie which formed a most useful belvedere over the town, was to make her appearance as commonplace and down at heel as possible [...].
pavilion
English
Noun
(en noun)- The pavilion of heaven is bare.
