to arcade
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- verb
- /ɑrˈkeɪd/
- Specialized
:
dotar de arcadas
- Although today the medieval pand is often identified either as a monastic cloister or an arcaded courtyard, with galleries used for retailing, in Antwerp the term was applied to specialized salesrooms in a variety of types of buildings or spaces.
Examples
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Another type of screen, frequently used in English churches, replaced the open, arcaded front of the porch screen with a solid surface while retaining the central doorway and upper platform.
Academic text (2000) -
It is clear from Bonifacio's earliest work in the new section of the palace that, to begin with, there was no set pattern for the decoration of the arcaded spaces running along the walls of each room.
Academic text (2000) -
It's built like building an permanent arcade around the centre.
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On one side, we look upon the arcaded court, and through the heavy-arched veranda upon the hot gorgeousness of color outside.
Blog text (22) -
The remaining smaller spaces in the external corners of the entrance facade and at the junction with the old section also share a common, "arcaded" format, but with minor variations.
Academic text (2000) -
Administrative performances "sub palatio" were in fact widespread in northern Italy, judging from the number of acts notarized in these arcaded stages.
Academic text (2015) -
Two heavily muscled guards bowed, along with twenty others nearby, before pulling open the tall, brass-bound doors leading to an arcaded passageway.
Fiction book (1998) -
But if noble and popular regimes in northern Italy commissioned arcaded buildings in order to frame certain public interactions to be seen, they did not yet do so in a manner that positioned a spectator at a precise point in the piazza in order to behold an ideal composition.
Academic text (2015) -
The architect decided to arcade the entrance with a stunning series of arches.
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They will arcade the new building to enhance its aesthetic appeal.
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Etymology
The verb arcade comes from the same root arcus meaning 'bow' or 'arch', so to arcade a building is to give it a row of arches or a covered walkway that looks like those arch shapes.