The "exedra" in the western bordering wall of the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3] Reference

Restoration drawing of a circular exedra and sarcophagus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assos and Early AIA Excavations] Reference

In the eastern exedra, one of the slabs was absent, creating a gap of 0.70 by 0.90 meters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3] Reference

Next to this is a large and handsome exedra, decorated with good pictures, a third of the size of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The exedra is also adorned with many other paintings and ornaments which it would be too long to describe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The adjoining triclinium, entered by a door from the exedra, had also three paintings, one of which however is almost destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Both bordering walls contain an exedra (a rectangular recess), 0.90 meters deep, but these are not situated exactly opposite one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3] Reference

But those quibbles apart, even old hands at the Capitoline Museum should try to take a look at the new exedra, and prepare – like the locals -- to be surprised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The emperor's new clothes] Reference

Antonius chooses to compose his thoughts while walking in the portico. 111 Crassus, in contrast, retires to an exedra, where he devotes his midday respite to "the closest and most careful meditation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

On Saturday October 24 at 4: 00 pm Prinz Gholam (Wolfgang Prinz & Michel Gholam) will present their performance "Air" near the northern exedra of the Tuileries Gardens (a rectangular pond situated parallel to the central alley).    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Knowledge News] Reference

60Aside from the portico and exedra, there is another chamber in the Roman house, the cubiculum, to which Crassus (and Cicero, who had purchased Crassus's house) could have repaired to meditatively compose himself and his judgments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

A larger paved courtyard (Courtyard XIII) that was provided with an exedra (Room XI) and a private nymphaeum (Fountain XIX) was once part of a first-century A.D. peristyle house, as was a smaller court (Courtyard XXV) with a vaulted chamber (Room XXVIII) in late antiquity enclosed by arcaded galleries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 2] Reference

The presbytery was also known as apsis, exedra, concha, designations referring to its form; bema from the fact that it was elevated above the level of the nave and in consequence reached by a stairway of a few steps; tribuna because of its location and general resemblance to the tribunal in civil basilicas whence the magistrates administered justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

A larger paved courtyard (Courtyard XIII) provided with an exedra (Room XI), probably a winter oecus (open sitting room) and a smaller court (Courtyard XXV) with a vaulted chamber (Room XXVIII) fulfilling the same function, were enclosed by arcaded galleries and separated from each other by a private nymphaeum (Fountain XIX) and a central north-south running arcaded gallery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 2] Reference

Mnemonic ornament from the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE. In addition to the peripatetic mode of composition preferred by Antonius, Romans meditated in a reclined position — at times in a more public exedra, at others in the more private cubiculum. 119 The linguistic twining of bed and reading, via Cicero's lectulus, continued into the Renaissance: Castiglione includes the interpolation as an exemplary pun in his discussion of an ideal courtier's sense of humor. 120 However, as evident in such quattrocento portraiture as Antonello da Messina's portrait of St. Jerome, the posture for thought had shifted from a reclined to a seated position; Cicero's "daybed" had been replaced as the furniture-for-musing by the reading lectern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Now it’s come to this wonderful permanent new stable – the curved “exedra” shape carefully echoing the pavement of Michelangelo’s piazza outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The emperor's new clothes] Reference

The second pool has a surface of a thousand square feet, the third spans nineteen hundred, and there are fish in all three, hatched there -- "pumpkin-seed" included, but also trout -- among spontaneous bulrushes, pond-lilies, flags, and dainty water-weeds; and sometimes at night, when the reflected glory of a ten-o'clock full moon shines up from it to the stone exedra on the lawn, I seem to have taken my Praxitelean curves so directly from Nature that she thinks she took them herself from me and thanks me for the suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Garden] Reference

This exedra is remarkable for its paintings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The exedra I mentioned just now is of concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Garden] Reference

The private part comprised the peristyle, bed-chambers, triclinium, œci, picture-gallery, library, baths, exedra, xystus, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference