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pavilion
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The Devil in the White City
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- Other nations, he wrote, had mounted exhibits of dignity and style, while American exhibitors erected a mélange of pavilions and kiosks with no artistic guidance and no uniform plan.†
p. 15.4
- The monstrous guns of Krupp were in place in their pavilion on the lake south of the Court of Honor.†
p. 221.1 *pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- There would be miracles at the fair—the chocolate Venus de Milo would not melt, the 22,000-pound cheese in the Wisconsin Pavilion would not mold—but the greatest miracle was the transformation of the grounds during the long soggy night that had preceded Cleveland's arrival.†
p. 236.8
- Olmsted had yet to complete grading and planting the grounds around the Krupp Pavilion, the Leather Building, and the Cold Storage Building; he had not yet laid the brick pavement at the fair's train station or sodded the New York Central exhibit, the Pennsylvania Railroad exhibit, Choral Hall, and the Illinois State Building, which to many Chicagoans was the single most important building at the fair.†
p. 240.9
- The installation of exhibits and company pavilions within the Electricity Building was woefully behind schedule.†
p. 241.1
- Westinghouse only began building its pavilion on Tuesday, May 2.†
p. 241.2pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- One of the most compelling, and chilling, exhibits was the Krupp Pavilion, where Fritz Krupp's "pet monster" stood at the center of an array of heavy guns.†
p. 248.3
- A popular guide to the fair, called the Time-Saver, rated every exhibit on a scale of one to three, with one being merely "interesting" and three being "remarkably interesting," and gave the Krupp Pavilion a three.†
p. 248.4
- Unopened crates and rubbish that just one week earlier had cluttered the interior of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, particularly at the pavilions erected by Russia, Norway, Denmark, and Canada, likewise had been removed, and now these spaces presented "an entirely different and vastly improved appearance."†
p. 252.1
- At the pavilion of the Inman line a full-sized slice of an ocean liner towered above them.†
p. 265.7pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- Below the chandeliers spread an indoor city of "gilded domes and glittering minarets, mosques, palaces, kiosks, and brilliant pavilions," according to the popular Rand, McNally & Co. Handbook to the World's Columbian Exposition.†
p. 266.3
- They saw Gobelin tapestries at the French Pavilion and the life-mask of Abraham Lincoln among the exhibits of the American Bronze Company.†
p. 266.6pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- It investigated the discovery on the grounds of three fetuses; a Pinkerton detective "assaulting visitors" at the Tiffany Pavilion; and a "Zulu acting improperly."†
p. 283.9
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.