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colonnaded

colonnaded \colonnaded\ adj. having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals; furnished with a colonnade.

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colonnaded

a. Having one or more colonnades.

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colonnaded

adj. having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals

Usage examples of "colonnaded".

We came upon the city of Menefer, a vast stretch of mighty stone buildings that towered along the Nile's eastern bank: temples and obelisks that reared into the cloudless sky, piers that dwarfed anything we had seen before, long colonnaded avenues lined with palms and eucalyptus trees, palaces with gardens and even groves of trees planted on their roofs.

He was ashen-faced as we walked between the gold-armored guards down the long corridors and lofty colonnaded courts of the capitol, with their cats skulking in the shadows.

This time they toured the Painted Stoa, a handsome colonnaded stone building in which many paintings were hung.

A huge colonnaded building closed off the semicircle, where the personnel and displays were housed, and they led onto a raised stage area.

A double veranda gave protection from the weather, opening onto a large colonnaded garden.

From its placing, the slab under his backside seemed to be part of a preliminary mock-up of one of the colonnaded walks that would line the interior garden.

She combed the room, and saw Myra at the back near one of the colonnaded entrances, talking to Joe Huddleston, an agent Grace had known since Quantico.

The majority of the exodus was taking place at the back, where the colonnaded exits were located.

The obscured outline of a classical portico and colonnaded facade below the towers suggested that the buildings were once part of some small municipal centre.

Wild orchids and magnolia entwined themselves around the grey ionic columns of the old courthouse, a miniature sham-Parthenon with a heavy sculptured portico, but otherwise the square had survived intact the assaults of the previous fifty years, its original floor still well above the surrounding water leveL Next to the courthouse with the faceless clock tower, was a second colonnaded building, a library or museum, its white pillars gleaming in the sunlight like a row of huge bleached bones.

There stood Council Hall, slate-roofed, heavy-timbered, colonnaded with carven water monsters.

And beyond the atrium, through open doors that could, at the owners' whim, be closed for privacy, was a stunning colonnaded reception hall, reminding him strikingly of the Fishbourne Roman Palace, but on a smaller scale.

The colonnaded hall was the backdrop for bronze statues on marble pedestals and a breathtaking fountain in the center of the floor.

A moment later, the Saxons brushed arrogantly past the servants who held the doors leading from the colonnaded hall out to the peristyle garden.