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Definition of Colonnades
1. colonnade [n] - See also: colonnade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonnades
Literary usage of Colonnades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER IX v colonnades AND WALKS 1. colonnades must be constructed behind the
scaena, so that when sudden showers interrupt plays, the people may have ..."
2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER IX colonnades AND WALKS 1. colonnades must be constructed behind the
scaena, so that when sudden showers interrupt plays, the people may have ..."
3. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1900)
""colonnades to the Eaves." After a while you begin to ask questions, and wonder
why you have not known of this town before. The answers to your questions ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"»roh were covered colonnades, connecting with the Manufactures Building on the
... Flanking the central dome were beautiful Ionic colonnades which formed ..."
5. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883)
"At the entrance to Trajan's Forum was a triumphal arch, which led into a great
court surrounded by colonnades, the roofs of which were decorated with gilded ..."
6. The Tourist in Italy. by Thomas Roscoe (1831)
"A long and narrow street of mean houses leads to an open space of about two
hundred feet square, on passing which the traveller arrives at the colonnades in ..."
7. Applied Perspective, for Architects and Painters by William Pitt Preble Longfellow (1901)
"Exactly the opposite effect is shown in the colonnades which Bernini prefixed to the
... Consequently the colonnades are robbed of their apparent length, ..."
8. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"The temple, which is approached through the colossal marble Propylaea, or state
entrance, with Doric colonnades and steps of marble and black and ..."
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