band shell
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of band shell
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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But the beloved band shell wasn’t completely emptied out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2020
Police distributed notices among the crowd - estimated by police at 7,000 persons - gathered at the band shell in Grant Park, just east of the downtown Loop.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 27, 2018
At Form, the stage was an open-air band shell that had been designed, in the seventies, to look like the apse of an Italian church, with a few psychedelic flourishes.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2018
Today, the music department claims a brown-tiled wing off the main entrance, across from a large auditorium with a thousand padded seats and a band shell.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2018
Even if the Superintendent had allowed it, he could not have brought himself to stay at the band shell.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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