pavilion
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- An ornate tent.
- A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
- A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
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The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
— Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.
- A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
- The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
- The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
- The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
- A flag, ensign, or banner.
- A flag, ensign, or banner.; A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
- An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
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A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
— For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]
动词 v.
- To furnish with a pavilion.
- To put inside a pavilion.
- To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
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From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
词源 2
From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
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