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colonnade

/kol-uh-neyd/US // ˌkɒl əˈneɪd //UK // (ˌkɒləˈneɪd) //

柱廊,廊道,廊庑,廊桥

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Architecture. a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually one side of a roof.Compare arcade.
    • : a series of trees planted in a long row, as on each side of a driveway or road.

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Examples

  • In the carving, the temple is depicted with a classical pediment front and a colonnade of columns supporting the structure.

  • Inside the colonnade there were supposed to be statues of 30 famous Revolutionary War heroes.

  • As I have previously written in another account, our father led us down the colonnade that runs past the Oval Office.

  • Obama left the meeting, walked across the colonnade past the Rose Garden to the residence, to make a decision.

  • The porticoes of all these buildings formed a continuous colonnade by the side of the street.

  • Heard from granite colonnade or beneath cool linen awning, it was mellowed by distance, to monotonous music.

  • Through a magnificent colonnade I could see a second court on one side, where were the offices; the door was rotting.

  • The background, too, that colonnade “leading nowhither,” is characteristic of the change in the manner of regarding things.

  • While pacing the colonnade one afternoon, there appeared to him a female form of superhuman size and beauty.