gazebo

noun

1. A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.

   “Ann dye Ned inn a gaze ay beau a pun a past Eye maid off any Sun ("and dined in a gazebo upon a pasty made of venison")”

   “over which is a gazebo room 10 feet square”

   “She led them around the back of the yard, where a gray, tired-looking gazebo perched at the edge of the oak trees.”

2. A dismountable shelter comprising a roof or awning supported by poles, and often having removable sides; a canopy tent

   “They started screwing aluminium rods together, like they were going to assemble a gazebo.”

   “Canopy tents go by a lot of names: screen houses, outdoor canopies, camping shelters, day tents, camping gazebos, patio shelters, portable shelters, and (our favorite) portable gazebos.”

   “It has been a tough year in hospitality, but brave souls continue to dream big and set out their stalls delivering tasty specialty food at keen prices from horseboxes, trucks and gazebos.”

3. (Ireland, derogatory)a gaudy, incongruous, or flimsy structure or object

   “'I'll thank ye tell me what they mean by that old gazabo on the top of the market-place,' said she, in a burst of ridicule fit to have brought the old tower down.”

   “There was no garden attached to this tenement, nor was there even a good yard. People looked at it in passing by and called it a gazebo, a rattle-trap, a castle rack-rent.”

   “Sometimes a few middle-aged women came to see her, elderly spinsters whom she regarded as little girls. "Poor Cathy, she’s a great guy. She’s always making a show of herself"—and she might disconcertingly rap out at them, "What’s that gazebo you have on your head? What in reason prevailed on you to choose that color?"”

   “The critics, those lurking socialists in the Central Bank and the ESRI, those dangerous subversives, have dared not to believe and to criticise the figures on which the Minister rests the entire shaky gazebo of the direction of the economy for next year.”

   “When they were living in a house farther out from the city, and still very hard-up, the mother pledged a sideboard to tide them over the father's illness. When the money was not available to redeem it, she consoled herself by saying: "It was only a bloody gazebo anyhow".”