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gazebo

ga·zebo

UK/ɡəˈziːbəʊ/ US/ɡəˈziːboʊ/ uncommon

noun

1.

a small roofed building affording shade and rest

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Origin

Possibly from gaze + Latin future indicative conjugation-ending -bō, as in vidēbō (“I will see”), comparable perhaps to lavabo from Latin lavābō (“I will wash”); alternatively from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba, “fort, casbah”), itself possibly refashioned after the former.

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