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rotunda Esp. West 
n. a lobby, concourse, foyer, or main hall of a hotel, railway station, college building, etc.
- 1905 The hotels have no drinking-water tanks in their rotundas for the use of guests or local patrons--for obvious reasons.
- 1924 The scene in the rotunda of Montreal's impressive Windsor Station was as lively as it was metropolitan.
- 1958 Place and Date of Sale [is] Rotunda, Fifth Floor, Natural Resources Building, Edmonton, Alberta.
- 1964 Vibrations of calypso music rocked the rotunda at McCall Field Thursday. . . .
- 1905 The hotels have no drinking-water tanks in their rotundas for the use of guests or local patrons--for obvious reasons.