colonnade
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- noun
- /ˌkɒləˈneɪd/
- Specialized
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columnata
- There, in the shadow of a high colonnade, the tall bronze statue of Il Porcelino guards the empty butcher stalls.
- podium with the colonnade
Examples
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The rounded archways of the colonnades are brick and adobe, wrapped by purple bougainvillea.
Fiction book (2002) -
Anne, there is Mrs. Clay, I am sure, standing under the colonnade, and a gentleman with her.
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Even while you were dining, there seems to have been a colonnade over here.
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I'm going to the colonnade.
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- Take the stairs to the ground floor... ...you go to the end of the West Colonnade.
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So a great open rectangular space open to the sky with colonnades on either side.
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The remains of a colonnade in the nave are still visible (Figure 2).
Academic text (2004) -
The palace had courtyards, colonnades, audience chambers.
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He's in the center garden of the Palais Royale near the colonnade.
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The first red light of dawn illuminated the colonnade under which they walked.
Synonyms
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4.2
A covered passageway with arches often lined with shops
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A row of columns that surrounds a building or courtyard
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Etymology
The word colonnade comes from the word column, from Latin columna, meaning 'pillar'. So a colonnade is simply a row of pillars that hold up a roof or make a building look grand, like the long lines of columns you see around temples and museums.