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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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Laodice flung her hands over her face and shrank in an agony of shame down upon the exedra.
This nymphaeum and its exedra, placed on the longitudinal axis of the garden, is the real centre of the ensemble.
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 formal garden is laid out in all its splendour, with alleys, vistas, and a white-painted exedra.
In restorations made in different times, the exedra in the south has been made a room.
Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.

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