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<h2 id="etymology">Etymology</h2> <p>The etymology given by <a href="/facts/Oxford_Dictionaries_(website)/kfecTBwv">Oxford Dictionaries</a> is "Mid 18th century: perhaps humorously from gaze, in imitation of Latin future tenses ending in -ebo: compare with <a href="/facts/Lavabo/kYD35BqM">lavabo</a>."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> L. L. Bacon put forward a derivation from <i><a href="/facts/Casbah_of_Algiers/EqGBbmHP">Casbah</a></i>, a <a href="/facts/Muslim/W2ukq4pg">Muslim</a> quarter around the citadel in <a href="/facts/Algiers/Cdk8BQl1">Algiers</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> W. Sayers proposed <a href="/facts/Andalusian_Arabic/baU0yx5X">Hispano-Arabic</a> <i>qushaybah</i>, in a poem by <a href="/facts/C%25C3%25B3rdoba%2c_Spain/t4c3oIc0">Cordoban</a> poet <a href="/facts/Ibn_Quzman/VjFJzk8R">Ibn Quzman</a> (d. 1160).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>The word <i>gazebo</i> appears in a mid-18th century English book by the architects John and <a href="/facts/William_Halfpenny/SCUSz6Pr">William Halfpenny</a>: <i>Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste</i>. 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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p><a href="/facts/George_Washington/ucb7mE4Q">George Washington</a> had a small eight-sided garden structure at <a href="/facts/Mount_Vernon/wsgdqtYa">Mount Vernon</a>. <a href="/facts/Thomas_Jefferson/8yxtcjKK">Thomas Jefferson</a> wrote about gazebos, then called summerhouses or pavilions. </p> <h2 id="design">Design</h2> <p>Gazebos are freestanding or attached to a garden wall, roofed, and are often open on all sides. They provide <a href="/facts/Shade_(shadow)/nuJRxKGj">shade</a>, shelter from rain and a place to rest, while acting as an <a href="/facts/Ornament_(art)/byhAkelV">ornamental</a> feature. Some gazebos in public parks are large enough to serve as a <a href="/facts/Bandstand/ay6w3sHV">bandstand</a>. </p> <h2 id="types">Types</h2> <p>Gazebos overlap with pavilions, <a href="/facts/Kiosk/KEfJuRnu">kiosks</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Belvedere_(structure)/69JCSCxa">belvederes</a>, <a href="/facts/Folly/vNDGWdQ8">follies</a>, <a href="/facts/Gloriette/CrBzfc5N">gloriettes</a>, <a href="/facts/Pergola/lM5rSsjF">pergolas</a>, and <a href="/facts/Rotunda_(architecture)/mcDdxVCu">rotundas</a>. </p><p>Such structures first appeared in <a href="/facts/Ancient_Egypt/BDsEGK4g">Egyptian</a> gardens approximately 5,000 years ago and appear in the literature of China, <a href="/facts/Persia/24yukge8">Persia</a> and other classical civilizations. </p><p>Examples in England are the garden houses at <a href="/facts/Montacute_House/KCKIV2Hm">Montacute House</a> in <a href="/facts/Somerset/gjVyBFVX">Somerset</a>. The gazebo at <a href="/facts/Elton_on_the_Hill/T2PafsjH">Elton on the Hill</a> in <a href="/facts/Nottinghamshire/maY0RSJn">Nottinghamshire</a>, 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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>In today's England and North America, gazebos are typically built of wood and covered with standard roofing materials, such as <a href="/facts/Roof_shingle/A5jSyGcG">shingles</a>. Gazebos can be tent-style structures of poles covered by tensioned fabric. Gazebos may have screens to aid in the exclusion of flying insects. </p><p>Temporary gazebos are often set up in the campsites of <a href="/facts/Music_festival/JSIH6XAM">music festivals</a> in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, usually accompanying <a href="/facts/Tent/Bd256bGq">tents</a> around them. </p><p>A structure resembling a gazebo, found in villages in the <a href="/facts/Maldives/sC2HeXby">Maldives</a>, is known as a <i>holhuashi</i>. </p> <h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Architecture portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Belvedere_(structure)/69JCSCxa">Belvedere</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Bandstand/ay6w3sHV">Bandstand</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Canopy_(architecture)/JT7yH5nT">Canopy (architecture)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Chickee/fHr6VFad">Chickee</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Chinese_pavilion/qS0oTbLg">Chinese pavilion</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Eric_and_the_Dread_Gazebo/nqT2C7Yd">Eric and the Dread Gazebo</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Monopteros/2VlJn7lX">Monopteros</a>: a ring of columns, often domed</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pendhapa/z3qH6Nzr">Pendhapa</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Solar_canopy/wcxBUEF2">Solar canopy</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Spring_House_Gazebo/9v3jLJFQ">Spring House Gazebo</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Widow%2527s_walk/DAoarQYf">Widow's walk</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Look up <i>gazebo</i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gazebos. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Gazebo">"Gazebo" </a>. <i><a href="/facts/Encyclop%25C3%25A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition/mPElbCRY">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 545.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>A longer definition appears in the Merriam-Webster Concise Encyclopedia: Retrieved 25 October 2012. <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gazebo" target="_blank">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gazebo</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Cambridge English Dictionary". <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gazebo" target="_blank">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gazebo</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"gazebo". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on November 7, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161107092307/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gazebo" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20161107092307/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gazebo</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Bacon, Leonard Lee. "Gazebos and Alambras", American Notes and Queries 8:6 (1970): 87–87 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>William Sayers, Eastern prospects: Kiosks, belvederes, gazebos. Neophilologus 87: 299–305, 2003.[1] <a href="https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1022691123957" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1022691123957</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>British Library catalogue. Retrieved 16 September 2020. <a href="https://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLLSFX3360000000300917&indx=5&recIds=BLLSFX3360000000300917&recIdxs=4&elementId=4&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&frbg=&&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&vl(2084770704UI0)=any&tb=t&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=Halfpenny%20Rural%20Architecture%20in%20the%20Chinese%20Taste&dstmp=1600281560368" target="_blank">https://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLLSFX3360000000300917&indx=5&recIds=BLLSFX3360000000300917&recIdxs=4&elementId=4&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&frbg=&&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&vl(2084770704UI0)=any&tb=t&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=Halfpenny%20Rural%20Architecture%20in%20the%20Chinese%20Taste&dstmp=1600281560368</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>The word as applied to late medieval structures in Iran and Turkey corresponds to a gazebo. The modern English senses of a street stall or a telephone box do not. Collins English Dictionary: "(in Turkey, Iran, etc., esp. formerly) a light open-sided pavilion." <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 25 October 2012. <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-425567-gazebo-in-grounds-of-former-elton-manor-" target="_blank">http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-425567-gazebo-in-grounds-of-former-elton-manor-</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>