I occasionally order things from overseas. With tracking you sometimes get some very interesting place names, such as on a current purchase Itasca and Carol Stream, Illinois; I like to do an image search and get an idea of some of the interesting things such as this rotunda in Itasca. Travel from my room!
I’d have said that a gazebo is a small decorated building with a roof and open sides, or (increasingly in the UK) a tent with open sides. A rotunda has to be round (often with a domed roof) but, unlike a gazebo, it can be fully enclosed. Gazebos needn’t be round and rotundas needn’t have open sides.
In my part of the world, I’ve never heard rotunda used of a freestanding structure, particularly one as relatively small as a gazebo. I know the dictionary definition is wide enough to cover such a structure, but I’ve only heard the word used to refer to a large interior room or chamber under a dome, like the rotunda of the United States Capitol.
What an interesting and varied thing is the English language.
There is a structure, similar to a bandstand but smaller, called a Buttercross- where butter used to be sold, so is usually found in market towns.
Ours is occasionally used for public events in the market square eg Good Friday service and on Remembrance Day, or for the band at the summer fair.
My happy habit is playing my acoustic guitar every day I can. I keep it in the kitchen on a stand so that I can grab it easily and the slightly echo-y acoustic because of the floor tiles makes my finger-style playing sound OK. I even take a small guitar on holiday -if it doesn't wind up Mrs Vole too much!
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What an interesting and varied thing is the English language.
Ours is occasionally used for public events in the market square eg Good Friday service and on Remembrance Day, or for the band at the summer fair.