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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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The main door and main exedra is in the south-north direction and two exedras are made vertically.
Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
In shelter behind the exedra she halted, fended from him by the marble seat.
In restorations made in different times, the exedra in the south has been made a room.
This nymphaeum and its exedra, placed on the longitudinal axis of the garden, is the real centre of the ensemble.
Laodice flung her hands over her face and shrank in an agony of shame down upon the exedra.

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