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pavilion

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Noun

  1. An ornate tent.
  2. A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
  3. A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
  4. The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
  5. A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
  6. The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
  7. The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
  8. The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  9. A flag, ensign, or banner.
  10. A flag, ensign, or banner: A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
  11. An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
  12. A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

Verb

  1. To furnish with a pavilion.
  2. To put inside a pavilion.
  3. To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").

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