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noun

Hemicycle n.

A half circle; a semicircle.

A semicircular place, as a semicircular arena, or room, or part of a room. "The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion."

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Etymology of 'Hemicycle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hemicycle" Quotes from Famous Books

... accurately shod, and standing tall on burnished hooves, their necks curved by the check rein and their black and blonde manes flowing over the proud arch, lustrous and wrinkled like satin, were ranged in a glittering hemicycle. They affected my friend like the youth and beauty of his earliest evening parties; he experienced a sense of bashfulness, of sickening personal demerit. He could not have had the audacity to bid on one of those superb creatures, if all the ...

— Buying a Horse • William Dean Howells

... represents, in a hemicycle, the Empress in her bridal dress, offering to the Virgin a diamond necklace; young girls are kneeling around her in prayer; admiration and fervent faith are ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various

... Nativity in various scenes; to the right Herod, and the Adoration of the Magi. The whole of these reliefs are twelfth-century work, with the exception of the Presentation, which is thirteenth century. In the hemicycle above are the Virgin and Child under a Byzantine canopy with angels and founders on either side. On the central pier stands St. Marcel, Bishop of Paris, banning the horrible serpent that made his lair in a tomb: the retreating serpent's ...

— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

Words linked to "Hemicycle" : plane figure