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pavilion
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Did you have a sports pavilion?†
p. 5.8

pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
In particular, there are those pavilions.†
p. 6.4
We loved our sports pavilion, maybe because it reminded us of those sweet little cottages people always had in picture books when we were young.†
p. 6.8

pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
I can remember us back in the Juniors, pleading with guardians to hold the next lesson in the pavilion instead of the usual room.†
p. 6.9
Then by the time we were in Senior 2— when we were twelve, going on thirteen—the pavilion had become the place to hide out with your best friends when you wanted to get away from the rest of Hailsham.†
p. 6.9
The pavilion was big enough to take two separate groups without them bothering each other—in the summer, a third group could hang about out on the veranda.†
p. 7.1
The guardians were always telling us to be civilised about it, but in practice, you needed to have some strong personalities in your group to stand a chance of getting the pavilion during a break or free period.†
p. 7.2
There was a kind of conversation that could only happen when you were hidden away in the pavilion; we might discuss something that was worrying us, or we might end up screaming with laughter, or in a furious row.†
p. 7.4
Tommy was still going strong as we came out of the pavilion.†
p. 10.8
You could talk about things there you wouldn't dream of talking about any other place, not even in the pavilion.†
p. 15.7
The Juniors at the window had lost interest and gone; some girls from our year were walking towards the pavilion, but they were still a good way off.†
p. 28.6
The girls heading for the pavilion had spotted me and were waving and calling.†
p. 29.4
That meant that from almost any of the classroom windows in the main house—and even from the pavilion—you had a good view of the long narrow road that came down across the fields and arrived at the main gate.†
p. 34.2
No one answered, and we carried on over to the pavilion, not saying anything more about what had happened.†
p. 36.1 *
The two of us were walking from the dorm huts perhaps towards the pavilion, I'm not sure.†
p. 59.4
There's a particular memory I have of sitting by myself one evening on one of the benches outside the pavilion, trying over and over to think of some way out, while a heavy mix of remorse and frustration brought me virtually to tears.†
p. 62.6
And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later—particularly what happened that day at the pavilion while we were sheltering from the downpour.†
p. 79.2
We'd been in the pavilion getting ready for a game of rounders.†
p. 79.2
The downpour had started while we were changing, and we found ourselves gathering on the veranda—which was sheltered by the pavilion roof—while we waited for it to stop.†
p. 79.4
It's hard to say clearly what sort of impact Miss Lucy's outburst at the pavilion made.†
p. 82.4
Once, for instance, a few of us were going back from the pavilion towards the dorm huts and found ourselves walking behind Tommy and a couple of other boys.†
p. 93.1
The classrooms were all officially "out of bounds" in the evenings, as were the areas behind the sheds and the pavilion.†
p. 95.7
Then maybe a day or two later, I was coming out of the pavilion with Hannah when she suddenly nudged me and nodded towards a group of boys over on the North Playing Field.†
p. 101.1
Maybe once Hailsham was behind us, it was possible, just for that half year or so, before all the talk of becoming carers, before the driving lessons, all those other things, it was possible to forget for whole stretches of time who we really were; to forget what the guardians had told us; to forget Miss Lucy's outburst that rainy afternoon at the pavilion, as well as all those theories we'd developed amongst ourselves over the years.†
p. 142.9
Because as I'd stood there watching them all talking and laughing, I'd felt an unexpected little tug; because there was something about the way these donors had arranged themselves in a rough semi-circle, something about their poses, almost studiedly relaxed, whether standing or sitting, as though to announce to the world how much each one of them was savouring the company, that reminded me of the way our little gang used to sit around our pavilion together.†
p. 278.1
I see a sports pavilion in the distance and I'm sure it's ours.†
p. 286.5

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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
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, pavilion can reference a facet of a gem or part of the outer ear.

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