[Loch-Ruadh] word of the day
Jane Sitton
lymadelina at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 12 08:31:09 PDT 2002
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
beholderand 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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