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Definition of Exedra
1. n. A room in a public building, furnished with seats.
Definition of Exedra
1. Noun. (architecture) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion. ¹
2. Noun. (by extension) A curved bench with a high back. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exedra
1. a curved outdoor bench [n -DRAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exedra
Literary usage of Exedra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern: Illustrations and Descriptions of the by Harry Augustus Bliss (1912)
"As a rule, the larger dwelling enclosures included a garden so planned that the
exedra commanded its view. Such planning, both in public and private ..."
2. A Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture: In Italy, Greece, and the Levant edited by William Pitt Preble Longfellow (1895)
"... supporting two stories of building, and terminating in a circular exedra
enclosing •л magnificent fountain with niches and usual elegance. ..."
3. The Southeast Building, the Twin Basilicas, the Mosaic House by Saul S. Weinberg (1971)
"The short north wall of this exedra had in the various later rebuildings.
There were a foundation of a single course of blocks cor- three, or perhaps four, ..."
4. A Church Dictionary by Walter Farquhar Hook (1854)
"When that curious artist had finished his famous structure within. he then set
himself about the exedra, or building that joined one to another by the sides ..."
5. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"A clue to the date of the erection of the exedra is furnished by the fact ...
205); hence the exedra cannot have been built before 147 AD On the other hand ..."
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