Ornamental, usually open, structure in a garden used for dining, viewing, or relaxing

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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.

Men smoking and drinking outside a coffee shop in Cairo. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1849, after D. Roberts.

An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.

The Chalis Satun, or Hall of Forty Pillars, at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

Pavilion in the fort of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.

Men smoking and drinking outside a coffee shop in Cairo. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1849, after D. Roberts.

Pavilion in the fort of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

The Chalis Satun, or Hall of Forty Pillars, at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.

An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.