[Loch-Ruadh] word of the day

[Jane Sitton]

Your daily vocabulary lesson:

belvedere • \BEL-vuh-deer\ • (noun): a structure (as a
cupola or a summerhouse) designed to command a view

Example sentence:
"From the north and northwest sides of the belvedere
behind the church, you can see the French border and
trace the distant roads scoring the mountains.. . ."
(David Downie, The San Francisco Chronicle, March 17,
2002)

Did you know?
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the
beholder—and someone with a belvedere will likely have
a great deal of beauty to behold.  Given the origins
of the word, "belvedere" is the ideal term for a
building (or part of a building) with a view.  It
derives from two
Italian words, "bel," which means "beautiful," and
"vedere," which means "view."  The term has been used
in English since at least 1593.

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