PAVILION

, in Architecture, is a kind of turret, or building usually insulated, and contained under a single roof; sometimes square and sometimes in form of a dome: thus called from the resemblance of its roof to a tent.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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PARHELION
PART
PARTICLE
PASCAL (Blaise)
PATE
* PAVILION
PAVO
PAUSE
PECK
PEDESTAL
PEDIMENT