Middlemarch vocabulary

a young man, who still adheres to my fallen fortunes, passes a part of his time in a belvedere at the top of the house, in hopes of being the first to announce good news to me;

Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte-Cristo (1844)

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He gave them extraordinary but quite explicit instructions to lay breakfast for two in the belvedere study—and then to confine themselves to the basement and ground-floor.

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I kept raising my eyes — which the things in my room in Paris disturbed no more than did my eyelids themselves, for they were merely extensions of my organs, an enlargement of myself — towards the fantastically high ceiling of this belvedere planted upon the summit of the hotel which my grandmother had chosen for me;

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]

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A line of seven ornamental belvederes runs down the centre of the pier.

Mark Haddon. The Pier Falls and Other Stories (2016)