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cupola
[ kyoo-puh-luh ]
noun
- Architecture.
- a light structure on a dome or roof, serving as a belfry, lantern, or belvedere.
- a dome, especially one covering a circular or polygonal area.
- any of various domelike structures.
- Metallurgy. a vertical furnace for melting iron to be cast.
cupola
/ ˈkjuːpələ; ˈkjuːpəˌleɪtɪd /
noun
- a roof or ceiling in the form of a dome
- a small structure, usually domed, on the top of a roof or dome
- a protective dome for a gun on a warship
- a vertical air-blown coke-fired cylindrical furnace in which iron is remelted for casting
cupola
- A small ornamental structure rising from a roof. Cupolas are often dome shaped.
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Derived Forms
- cupolated, adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cupola1
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Example Sentences
Features include a glass cupola designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, who also created the Crystal Palace in London.
Paul Smith filled the Bourse de Commerce with its copper cupola in June for his menswear show.
The cupola rears its proud head majestically above the pile of stone and marble.
The roof is topped by a plain cupola in the center with two huge chimneys on either side.
His principal work is seen in the frescoes of the cupola at San Sigismondo, at Cremona.
The exterior walls are made of imitation malachite; the roof is a sky-blue cupola spangled with gilt stars.
It is near the western edge of the village of Greenough, the gilt cupola of whose eminent steeple is noted by far-passing ships.
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