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colonnade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colonnade \Col`on*nade"\, n. [F. colonnade, It. colonnata, fr. colonna column. See Colonel.] (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Note: When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1718, from French colonnade, from Italian colonnato, from colonna "column," from Latin columna "pillar" (see column).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A series of columns at regular intervals. 2 peristyle 3 portico, stoa
WordNet
n. structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns
a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns [syn: arcade]
Wikipedia
In classical architecture, a colonnade denotes a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building. Paired or multiple pairs of columns are normally employed in a colonnade which can be straight or curved. The space enclosed may be covered or open. In St. Peter's Square in Rome, Bernini's great colonnade encloses a vast open elliptical space.
When in front of a building, screening the door (Latin porta), it is called a portico, when enclosing an open court, a peristyle. A portico may be more than one rank of columns deep, as at the Pantheon in Rome or the stoae of Ancient Greece.
Colonnades have been built since ancient times and interpretations of the classical model have continued through to modern times, and Neoclassical styles remained popular for centuries. At the British Museum, for example, porticos are continued along the front as a colonnade. The porch of columns that surrounds the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (in style a peripteral classical temple) can be termed a colonnade. As well as the traditional use in buildings and monuments, colonnades are used in sports stadiums such as the Harvard Stadium in Boston, where the entire horseshoe-shaped stadium is topped by a colonnade. The longest colonnade in the United States, with 36 Corinthian columns, is the New York State Education Building in Albany, New York.
A colonnade is an architectural feature. Colonnade may also refer to:
- Centro Colonnades, shopping centre
- Colonnade Hotel, London
- Colonnade (Fabergé egg)
- Colonnade Row
- Colonnades Leisure Park, retail park and entertainment complex
- Colonnade at State College, shopping center
- I-5 Colonnade
- Mill Colonnade
- Perrault’s Colonnade
- Swinton Colonnade
- The Colonnade Inn (Sea Isle City)
- The Evening Colonnade
- 25 North Colonnade
- Colonnade (restaurant), a historic restaurant in Tampa, Florida
- The Colonnades, condominium buildings in Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighborhood
The Colonnade egg is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made by Henrik Wigström under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1910. The egg was made for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented it to his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna upon the birth of their only son, the tsarevich Alexei. As a clock-egg, the Colonnade egg contained no surprise.
Colonnade Restaurant is a historic restaurant in Tampa, Florida established in 1935. It was operated for at least three generations by the Whiteside family. The restaurant is known for its water views (on Bayshore Boulevard) and its seafood.
The Colonnade Restaurant was closed in the spring of 2016 when it was sold for $6.2 million dollars to Ascentia Development Group and Batson-Cook Development Co.
Usage examples of "colonnade".
To drive the convoy away as well, to leave the colonnade, go into the palace, order the room darkened, collapse on the bed, send for cold water, call in a plaintive voice for his dog Banga, and complain to him about the hemicrania.
He ducked beneath the colonnade of the Basilica Porcia, where frantic merchants were trying to disassemble their stalls, and worked his way into the Clivus Argentarius.
The whitewash on her railings and colonnades had fared the worst, and that was where she was grayest, and here and there Marsh saw patches of green clinging to her wood, and spreading.
The building called Lesche was thought to have been of elliptical form, with a colonnade on either side, separated by a wall in the middle, and to have been about 90 ft in length.
Three-meter pillars of Italian alabaster around its edge supported a low dome of chiseled bronze openwork, and continued in a freestanding colonnade to the entrance.
I took an escalator to the colonnaded lobby, an Art Deco extravaganza of white marble, blue glass, and semiabstract brushed-metal ornamentation.
For she glanced out of her open window and saw Sinon prancing blithely down the colonnade on the far side of the peristyle garden.
Across the busy circle, beyond the pale, templelike fountain colonnade, stood the gracious arch that marked the entrance to the Street of Lights.
Parrhasius, some nude male figures by Timanthes, one of the portraits of Alexander the Great by Apelles, and a horse by Apelles so lifelike it seemed tethered to the wall when viewed from the far side of the colonnade.
Oh, there was a central square, and a larger one than Kelder had ever seen before, but the galleries and arcades, colonnades and courtyards, stairways and stalls all extended for blocks, to left and right and straight ahead, inward from the city walls.
But first he had to get himself elected-don the specially chalked, snow-white toga of the candidate and move among the electors in every marketplace and basilica in Rome, not to mention arcades and colonnades, guilds and colleges, the porticus and the portico.
Seeing all these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its thousand pipes?
To and fro I paced before this skeleton-- brushed the vines aside--broke through the ribs--and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbors.
Some time later, in visiting these cities for reconstruction, I passed beneath colonnades in ruins and between rows of broken statues.
I myself drew the plan of its Corinthian colonnades and the corresponding alignment of palm trees spaced regularly along the river banks.