colonnade
colonnade
Definition
col·on·nade (käl′ə nād′)
noun
Archit. a series of columns set at regular intervals, usually supporting a roof or series of arches
Etymology: Fr < It colonnato < colonna < L columna, column
col′·on·nad′ed adjective
colonnade
Synonyms
colonnade
n.
colonnade
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: Nearly every building had broad, cool colonnades to shelter the Roman workers from the sun.
- see: You can see the big colonnades where you can sit and receive your guests.
- curve: Very grand proposals were were produced a main block with a vast dome, a portico and attached curved colonnades leading to symmetrical pavilions.
- roof: Then there's Chris Brooke at the virtual portico or roofed colonnade.
- cover: At its top was a covered arched, colonnade.
Converse of subject
- surround: LXXXIV, No. 9. Plan of a circular building surrounded by a colonnade.
Adjective modifier
- Doric: The walls of the nave consist of arcades, with Doric colonnades above through which the light enters the building.
- classical: On the opposite bank of the river was a Classical Colonnade, which was washed away in the floods of the late eighteenth century.
- open: The front was originally an open colonnade but was bricked up later.
- new: Around the pool is a new colonnade with white columns in Dutch style.
- Tuscan: Encircling the second and third floor is a Tuscan colonnade.
- arched: At its top was a covered arched, colonnade.
Preposition: on
- side: There are three music practice rooms, accessible from the ground floor colonnade on the west side of the building.
Noun used with modifier
- marble: Endless days in the white marble colonnades of Heaven, endless kneeling to the Emperor, endless loss, endless nothingness.
Preposition: of
- column: Between the two Bath Street runs with colonnades of unfluted Ionic columns on both sides.
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