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colonnade|kɒləˈneɪd|
Also 8 collonade, 8–9 colon-.
[a. F. colonnade, f. colonne column, app. after It. colonnato, f. colonna column, pillar: see -ade.]
1. Arch. A series of columns placed at regular intervals, and supporting an entablature.
1718Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. 68 The vast palaces..joined together by a magnificent colonnade. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 511 Beneath the pompous colonade. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 485 Porticos and colonnades surrounding squares and markets. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Stonehenge Wks. (Bohn) II. 123 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet.
2. transf. A similar row of trees or other objects.
1784Cowper Task i. 252 Not distant far, a length of Colonnade..These chesnuts rang'd in corresponding lines. 1790― Poplar Field 2. 1796 Sir J. Banks in Morse Amer. Geog. II. 172 Ranges of natural pillars..standing in natural colonnades. 1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 59 The Elm is peculiarly fitted for ‘the length of colonnade’ which our forefathers loved to make. |