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What does exedra mean?

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Noun
  1. (architecture) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion.
  2. (by extension) A curved bench with a high back.
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Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
Roman nymphaea became monumental pleasure houses, often in the shape of an exedra covered by a half dome.
Lounging on an exedra was a young woman in a woolen chiton, barefoot and trifling with the Greek ampyx that bound her golden hair.
The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra.
The formal garden is laid out in all its splendour, with alleys, vistas, and a white-painted exedra.
The adjoining triclinium, entered by a door from the exedra, had also three paintings, one of which however is almost destroyed.

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