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n. - A large circular room; A building having a circular plan and a dome.

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  • Whitehall, hangs in the great upper rotunda, which is a setting not unworthy of its fame.
  • In the rotunda was a hollow section of one of the largest trees that grow in the Maraposa grove of red woods in California.
  • If we got the ammo-packed rotunda, which is completely enclosed, it was easy to hold up and cover the two major points of entry.
  • This part has a round cavity called fenestra rotunda, which is covered with a thin elastic membrane, and looks into the tympanum.
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