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PAVILION

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 971 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAVILION , properly a See also:

tent, a See also:late use of See also:Lat. papilio, butterfly, from which the word is derived through the See also:French. The See also:term is chiefly used of a tent with a high pitched roof, a small detached See also:building used as a summer-See also:house, &c., and particularly for a building attached to a recreation ground for the use of players and members. In See also:architecture the term pavilion is specifically applied to a portion of a building which projects from the sides or central See also:part. It is a characteristic of French See also:renaissance architecture. Where the buildings of a large institution are broken up into detached portions, as in St See also:Thomas's See also:Hospital, See also:London, the term is generally applied to such detached buildings. For the musical See also:instrument known as the See also:Chinese pavilion or Jingling Johnny, see CHINESE PAVILION.

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