colonnade (kŏlənād`), a row of columns usually supporting a roof. Colonnades were popular with the Greeks and Romans, who employed them in the stoa stoa , in ancient Greek architecture, an extended, roofed colonnade on a street or square. Early examples consisted of a simple open-fronted shed or porch with a roof sloping from the back wall to the row of columns along the front.
..... Click the link for more information. and the portico portico , roofed space using columns or posts, generally included between a wall and a row of columns or between two rows of columns. In Greece the stoa was a portico of the first type; in Greek temples porticoes terminated the front and rear ends of the
..... Click the link for more information. ; they have continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and modern times. See column column, vertical architectural support, circular or polygonal in plan. A column is generally at least four or five times as high as its diameter or width; stubbier freestanding masses of masonry are usually called piers or pillars, particularly those with a
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colonnade

Row of columns generally supporting an entablature, used either as an independent feature (e.g., a covered walkway) or as part of a building (e.g., a portico). The earliest colonnades appear in the temple architecture of ancient Greece. In a basilica, colonnades are used to separate the side aisles from the central space. See also stoa.

colonnade

1. a set of evenly-spaced columns

2. a row of regularly spaced trees

colonnade [‚käl·ə′nād]

(architecture)

A series of columns placed at regular intervals.

colonnade

colonnade

A number of columns arranged in order, at intervals called intercolumniation, supporting an entablature and usually one side of a roof.

Colonnade

a row or rows of columns supporting a horizontal roof structure. Outdoor colonnades, which are either porticoes or galleries, are usually attached to a building to unify its isolated elements (for example, the Palladian villas). A colonnade also visually relates a building to its courtyard or square (for example, the colonnade of the Kazan Cathedral, Leningrad, 1801–11, architect A. N. Voronikhin) and its natural setting. Some colonnades are independent structures, such as the Colonnade of Apollo in Pavlovsk (1780–83, architect C. Cameron). Interior colonnades usually surround large halls, serving both to divide and unite various parts of a grand interior (for example, the colonnade in the former Catherine Hall in the Tauride Palace, Leningrad, 1783–89, architect I. E. Starov).

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There was a kind of portico or colonnade outside, and this obstructed even the little light that at the best could have found its way through the small apertures in the door.

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context

The eye was, for a long time, wholly lost in this labyrinth, where there was nothing which did not possess its originality, its reason, its genius, its beauty,--nothing which did not proceed from art; beginning with the smallest house, with its painted and carved front, with external beams, elliptical door, with projecting stories, to the royal Louvre, which then had a colonnade of towers.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

On the opposite side of the courtyard, under a colonnade, was extensive standin--for carriages--where, indeed, some carriages of Monseigneur yet stood.

A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context

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Colonial Heights

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Colonial Parkway

Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site

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Colonial Revival

colonial siding

Colonial System of Imperialism

Colonial Trade

Colonial Troops

Colonialism

Colonies and Colonial Policy

Colonies of Microorganisms

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