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单词 exedra
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exedra

/ˈɛksɪdrə / /ɪkˈsiːdrə / /ɛkˈsiːdrə/
noun (plural exedrae /ɪkˈsiːdriː/ /ɛkˈsiːdriː/) Architecture
A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek buildings.Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra....
  • When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them.

Origin

Latin, from Greek ex- 'out of' + hedra 'seat'.

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