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rotunda /rə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə /nounA round building or room, especially one with a dome.Similar to the curving rotundas of many capitol buildings, but, crucially, allowing in more daylight, it is monumental without losing its human scale....- Visitors during the summer of 2002 may expect to see a new black-and-white marble floor in the rotunda beneath the dome.
- If he treats the rotunda like the tower, some solar shading may be in the works.
Origin Early 17th century: alteration of Italian rotonda (camera) 'round (chamber)', feminine of rotondo 'round' (see rotund). Rhymes asunder, blunder, chunder, hereunder, plunder, sunder, thereunder, thunder, under, up-and-under, wonder |