amphitheatrical
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Under his guidance, Pete Dye produced the Stadium Course, with enormous natural grass spectator mounds that could accommodate thousands in amphitheatrical settings around the closing holes of each nine.
From Golf Digest • Oct. 13, 2010
The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gladiators rose from the table in respect to three gallants known to be among the gayest and richest youths of Pompeii, and whose voices were therefore the dispensers of amphitheatrical reputation.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A great amphitheatrical red barn sat on every little hill or a great red rectangular tobacco barn.
From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John
Constantinople, like haughty Rome, is built on seven hills—the houses being so disposed that they do not intercept the view commanded by each on the amphitheatrical acclivities.
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)
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