Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture: a small pavilion in a park.
  • noun An elaborately ornamented apartment in a medieval castle or château.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun architecture A pavilion or similar structure in an elevated position in parkland

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Examples

  • The kitchen has a cream-colored ceramic tiled floor and windows overlooking the patio also called a gloriette.

    NYT > Home Page By VIRGINIA C. McGUIRE 2012

  • No, I don't know the derivation of the word except that is is from the French gloriette but the RAE gives these definitions, perhaps they will help you see why that word is applied to the traffic glorieta. glorieta.

    derivation of "glorieta" 2007

  • No, I don't know the derivation of the word except that is is from the French gloriette but the RAE gives these definitions, perhaps they will help you see why that word is applied to the traffic glorieta. glorieta.

    derivation of "glorieta" 2007

  • Phase one of the two-year conservation programme by The National Trust and English Heritage saw stone conservators replace the old lime mortar to consolidate the crumbling masonry in the castle's gloriette and inner ward.

    Corfe Castle reopens after restoration 2007

  • Phase one of the two-year conservation programme by The National Trust and English Heritage saw stone conservators replace the old lime mortar to consolidate the crumbling masonry in the castle's gloriette and inner ward.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • In the rear are older palaces and towers, forming a vast, irregular quadrangle; -- Rodolph's ancientcastle, with its Gothic gloriette and fantastic gables; the

    Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

  • Page view page image: castle, with its Gothic gloriette and fantastic gables; the Giant's Tower, guarding the drawbridge over the moat; the Rent Tower, with the linden-trees growing on its summit, and the magnificent

    Hyperion 1839

  • _gloriette_, a word in common use in northern France and in Flanders, was a _logette de plaisance_.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

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