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A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden or spacious public area. Some are used on occasions as bandstands.

Etymology

The etymology given by Oxford Dictionaries is "Mid 18th century: perhaps humorously from gaze, in imitation of Latin future tenses ending in -ebo: compare with lavabo." L. L. Bacon put forward a derivation from ''Casbah'', a Muslim quarter around the citadel in Algiers.Bacon, Leonard Lee. "Gazebos and Alambras", ''American Notes and Queries'' 8:6 (1970): 87–87 W. Sayers proposed Hispano-Arabic ''qushaybah'', in a poem by Cordoban poet Ibn Quzman (d. 1160).William Sayers, ''Eastern prospects: Kiosks, belvederes, gazebos''. Neophilologus 87: 299–305, 200

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The word ''gazebo'' appears in a mid-18th century English book by the architects John and William Halfpenny: ''Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste''. There Plate 55, "Elevation of a Chinese Gazebo", shows "a Chinese Tower or Gazebo, situated on a Rock, and raised to a considerable Height, and a Gallery round it to render the Prospect more complete."

George Washington had a small eight-sided garden structure at Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson wrote about gazebos, then called summerhouses or pavilions.

Design

Gazebos are freestanding or attached to a garden wall, roofed, and open on all sides. They provide shade, shelter from rain and a place to rest, while acting as an ornamental feature. Some gazebos in public parks are large enough to serve as a bandstand.

Types

Gazebos overlap with pavilions, kiosks, alhambras, belvederes, follies, gloriettes, pergolas, and rotundas.

Such structures first appeared in Egyptian gardens approximately 5,000 years ago and appear in the literature of China, Persia and other classical civilizations.

Examples in England are the garden houses at Montacute House in Somerset. The gazebo at Elton on the Hill in Nottinghamshire, thought to date from the late 18th or early 19th century, is a square, crenelated, brick and stone tower with an arched opening. It acted as a focus for an extensive system of red-brick walled gardens, which has survived with some more modern additions.

In today's England and North America, gazebos are typically built of wood and covered with standard roofing materials, such as shingles. Gazebos can be tent-style structures of poles covered by tensioned fabric. Gazebos may have screens to aid in the exclusion of flying insects.

Temporary gazebos are often set up in the campsites of music festivals in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, usually accompanying tents around them.

A structure resembling a gazebo, found in villages in the Maldives, is known as a ''holhuashi''.Word Finde
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Gallery

File:Spitz Pavillon Hinterhaus-3233.jpg, Austria
File:Bandstand at Royal Palace, Sarahan, HP, India.jpg, Bandstand at Royal Palace, Sarahan, India
Image:Barrington IL Gazebo 1.jpg, A gazebo during winter, topped with a weather vane
Image:Gazebo in Sam Houston Park -- Houston.jpg, Gazebo in Sam Houston Park, Houston, Texas
Image:Gazebo Late 19th Century USA.JPG, Gazebo, United States, late 19th century
Image:Foxmoor Park in Fox River Grove, Illinois.jpg, Weathered gazebo near a fishing hole in Fox River Grove, Illinois
Image:Mohonk Mountain House 2011 Fishing Gazebo in Early Morning FRD 3158.jpg, A gazebo to shade fishing, Lake Mohonk, New York
Image:15 18 0264 junaluska.jpg, Gazebo at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina
Image:Ammand Dam (135).jpg, A two-story gazebo at Ammand Dam, Tabriz, Iran
Image:Zabytkowa altana.JPG, Gazebo in Prudnik, Poland
File:Kuopio - huvila.jpg, A small gazebo in Väinölänniemi, Kuopio, Finland

See also

Gazebo-like structures:
*Belvedere
*Bandstand
* Chickee
* Chinese pavilion
*Monopteros: a ring of columns, often domed
*Widow's walk

Examples:
* Eric and the Dread Gazebo
* Spring House Gazebo

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