rotunda

Esp. West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a lobby, concourse, foyer, or main hall of a hotel, railway station, college building, etc.

Quotations

1905

The hotels have no drinking-water tanks in their rotundas for the use of guests or local patrons--for obvious reasons.

1924

The scene in the rotunda of Montreal's impressive Windsor Station was as lively as it was metropolitan.

1958

Place and Date of Sale [is] Rotunda, Fifth Floor, Natural Resources Building, Edmonton, Alberta.

1964

Vibrations of calypso music rocked the rotunda at McCall Field Thursday. . . .