enfilade of rooms

9.9

A line of rooms with doorways in a straight line so you can see through

noun
/ˌɑːn.fɪˈleɪd əv ruːmz/

Specialized

: enfilada de habitaciones

Visitors admired the seamless enfilade of rooms as they walked through the historic mansion.

Examples

The palace boasts an impressive enfilade of rooms that stretches the length of the building.
The enfilade of rooms in the historic mansion is breathtaking.
The architect designed an enfilade of rooms for optimal light and dramatic views.
An enfilade of rooms can create a sense of spaciousness.
The architect designed an enfilade of rooms for optimal light and dramatic views.
The palace boasts an impressive enfilade of rooms that stretches the length of the building.
Visitors admired the seamless enfilade of rooms as they walked through the historic mansion.

Surface Forms

enfilade of rooms singular

enfilades of rooms plural

Morphology

enfilade + of + room

The crucial lexeme here is the specialist noun 'enfilade', which is a borrowed architectural term not transparently analyzable by a B1 learner; knowing 'of' and 'room' does not allow one to infer the specific sense ‘a series of rooms aligned with doorways’. Although some languages use a similar technical term, the meaning is lexicalized and domain-specific rather than compositionally built from ordinary constituents, so it would not be derivable without prior exposure.

Etymology

The noun enfilade of rooms may come from the picture of rooms and their doorways lined up like beads on a string, so you can 'see through' from one end to the other. So it means a series of connected rooms that give a long straight view.