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Webster 1828 Edition


Belvidere

BEL'VIDERE

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Noun.
[L.bellus,fine and video, to see.]
1.
A plant, a species of chenopodium, goosefoot or wild orach, called scoparia or annual mock cypress. It is of a beautiful pyramidical form, and much esteemed in China, as a salad, and for other uses.
2.
In Italian architecture, a pavilion on the top of an edifice; an artificial eminence in a garden.