Rotunda

Definitions

1. The United States Capitol rotunda.
2. A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
3. A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.
4. Alternative spelling of rotonda.
   Philippines, alt-of, alternative
5. A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

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Examples

“The rotunda begun but never completed by Abbot Wulfric (1047–59) at St Augustine’s Abbey as a link⟳ between the church of St Mary and that of St Peter and St Paul is an unusual and ambitious example of mid-eleventh-century English architecture which partly survives (fig. 4.6, top). […] Many of these rotundae are known to have⟳ had a special funerary function (as was the case at Canterbury).”

“The purely Greek character of the temple is revealed in the fact that there is no portico aligning the structure⟳; Roman tholoi and rotundae are usually distinguished by a portico.”

“Access to the shafts is gained via a brick entrance rotunda below a glass dome. The walls of these rotundae are built over the outer edge of caissons which hold⟳ the shafts; […]”

“TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.”

“No African-Americans have⟳ lain in state in the Rotunda, and only two have⟳ lain there in honor: Mrs. Parks in 2005 and Officer Jacob Joseph Chestnut, a Capitol Police officer killed in the line of duty, in 1998.”

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