gazebo

Etymology

Possibly from gaze + Latin conjugation ending -ebo (as in videbo); or possibly from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba) (whence also casbah), refashioned after gaze.

noun

  1. A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
    Ann dye Ned inn a gaze ay beau a pun a past Eye maid off any Sun ("and dined in a gazebo upon a pasty made of venison") 1734, Thomas Sheridan (Sr.), Letter from Dr. Sheridan to Dr. Swift; published in Deane Swift, editor, Letters Written by the late Jonathan Swift, D. D., volume v, London: C. Bathurst et al., 1768, page 367
    over which is a gazebo room 10 feet square 1749, William Halfpenny, New and Compleat System of Architecture, London: John Brindley, page 7
    She led them around the back of the yard, where a gray, tired-looking gazebo perched at the edge of the oak trees. 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 89

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