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Sous le gazebo

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Gazebo: Un gazébo (anglicisme et québécisme) est un petit pavillon de jardin servant de lieu de détente à l'abri du soleil ou des intempéries. (Wikipedia).

Gazebo (n.)1752, supposedly a facetious formation from gaze + -bo, Latin first person singular future tense suffix (as in videbo "I shall see"), on model of earlier belvedere "cupola," from Italian, literally "a fair sight." But according to OED perhaps rather a corruption of some oriental word. (On-line etymology dictionary: www.etymonline.com).

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