colonnaden.
1. Architecture. A series of columns placed at regular intervals, and supporting an entablature.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > colonnade
peristyle1612
peristylium1658
quadriporticus1711
colonnade1718
colonnado1725
orthostyle1831
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 28 Aug. (1965) I. 430 Joyn'd together by a Magnificent [colonade].
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 511 Beneath the pompous Colonnade.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 485 Porticos and colonnades surrounding squares and markets.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 275 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet.
2. transferred. A similar row of trees or other objects.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > [noun] > a line or row > resembling a colonnade
colonnade1785
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 252 Not distant far, a length of Colonnade..These chesnuts rang'd in corresponding lines.
1790 W. Cowper Poplar Field 2.
1796 Sir J. Banks in J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 172 Ranges of natural pillars..standing in natural colonnades.
1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 59 The Elm is peculiarly fitted for ‘the length of colonnade’ which our forefathers loved to make.
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