All 31 Uses
pavilion
in
The Once and Future King
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- It was a green meadow, kept short, with a broad grassy bank raised round it on which pavilions could be erected.†
Book 1 *
- And I should live out of doors all the year round in a pavilion, and never do anything but joust and go on quests and bear away the prize at tournaments, and I should not ever tell anybody my name.†
Book 1pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- The silk pavilions of famous people, pitched on every side, were azure and green and saffron and chequered.†
Book 1
- "And there," cried Gareth, unable to contain himself, "the king pight many pavilions, and there was great war made on both parties, and much people slain!"†
Book 2
- The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions.†
Book 2
- He sat invisible in his pavilion, at the hub of the excitement, and talked to Sir Ector or Kay or Merlyn day after day.†
Book 2pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- It was full night outside, and there was stillness in the bright pavilion.†
Book 2
- There was a scorer's pavilion at a tournament, with a real scorer inside it, who made marks on the parchment just like the mark for one run which is made by the cricket scorer today.†
Book 3
- King Arthur might turn to Guenever in the Pavilion, and remark that the great man's footwork was as lovely as ever.†
Book 3
- In the evening they stumbled on a pavilion of red sendal, with nobody inside.†
Book 3
- He got off his horse and looked at the pavilion.†
Book 3
- "This is a strange pavilion," he thought sadly, for his mind was full of Guenever, "but I suppose I may as well stay in it for the night Either it is here for some adventure or other, in which case I ought to try the adventure, or else the owners have gone away on holiday, and in that case they will not mind my taking shelter for one evening.†
Book 3
- After this he ate some bread which the girl had given him, drinking water from a stream which ran beside the pavilion, stretched his arms out until the elbows went click, yawned, hit his front teeth with his fist three times, and went to bed.†
Book 3
- There was nobody in the pavilion when I found it, and I was lost and tired, so I thought it would not matter if I took a night's lodging.†
Book 3
- I had my pavilion pitched in a fair meadow, in the usual way, and I was inside it, waiting for something to turn up.†
Book 3
- I went back into the pavilion and did on my armour.†
Book 3
- The next thing he did was to throw away his sword and rush straight into the pavilion.†
Book 3
- He blessed himself again, and the lady's pavilion turned up-so-down, and off she went in a ship, roaring and yelling, and the water burned after her.†
Book 3
- I rode away very happy, trying to sing a bit, until I came to a fair plain with a castle and pavilions and everything—and there was a tournament of five hundred knights in black and white.†
Book 3
- A pavilion had been erected for the King on one side, and another one for the Constable on the other.†
Book 3pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- The barricades and the pavilions were decorated with cloth.†
Book 3
- The cloths strained against the scaffolding of barricade and pavilion, and the pennons lay taut on the wind.†
Book 3pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- The heralds in the Constable's pavilion moistened their lips, which the breeze was cracking, before lifting their trumpets for a fanfare.†
Book 3
- Then, after several journeys from King's pavilion to Constable's, and vice versa, Sir Bors returned to his own hole.†
Book 3
- He was a passionate follower of tournaments —like one of those old gentlemen who nowadays frequent the cricket pavilion at Lord's—and he may have had access to some ancient Wisden, or even to the score-books themselves.†
Book 3
- Lancelot turned his eyes sideways to the Queen's pavilion, where she sat under the Constable's ward.†
Book 3
- A hundred and ten knights—forty were away on quests—stood round him in ordered ranks, in their best clothes, and there were carpets laid down, and pavilions set up for the great ladies to watch.†
Book 3
- Guenever, who was watching from her pavilion like a hawk, saw the two men fumbling together.†
Book 3pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- Generous Sir Belleus, who had borne no grudge for having his liver cut open on that distant evening beside the pavilion of red sendal, was making a horrible noise by blowing on a grass blade held edgewise between his thumbs.†
Book 3
- The tent was poor and shabby, compared with the splendid pavilions of the English knights.†
Book 4
- The same wind of sorrow whistled round the King's pavilion at Salisbury.†
Book 4pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
Definitions:
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(1)
(pavilion) a large building or section of a building that stands apart in function or design -- often used for gatherings, exhibitions, or specialized purposes
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, pavilion can reference a facet of a gem or part of the outer ear.