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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Â© A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

exedra, exhedra.
1. Passage, colonnade, portico, or other outdoor element, often fitted with seats, or where debate and conversation could occur.

2. Large semicircular niche-like building with stone seats ranged around the walls, sometimes with a hemidome over, resembling a large apse, often arranged on an axis related to a larger space.

3. Semicircular low wall with seats on the concave side so that the wall acts as the seatbacks.

4. Place in a garden partially enclosed by a semicircular hedge, walls, etc.

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