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Bandstand   /bˈændstˌænd/   Listen
Bandstand

noun
1.
A platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air.  Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand.






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"Bandstand" Quotes from Famous Books



... paused. 'I'm on the level,' he added, and paused again. 'I like you a whole lot. There's your friend, Genevieve. Better go after her, hadn't you? Good-bye.' And he was gone, walking swiftly through the crowd about the bandstand. ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... afternoon filtering through bare trees on the heads of a multitude. A large portion of Hampton Common is black with the people of sixteen nationalities who have gathered there, trampling down the snow, to listen wistfully and eagerly to a new doctrine of salvation. In the centre of this throng on the bandstand—reminiscent of concerts on sultry, summer nights—are the itinerant apostles of the cult called Syndicalism, exhorting by turns in divers tongues. Antonelli had spoken, and many others, when Janet, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill



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