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  • noun Alternative spelling of colonnade.

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Examples

  • It is a noble, airy, formal and worthy memorial, with the glorious words from the Psalm "If I ascend to the Heavens, thou art there..." cut into the glass that lifts your eyes up to the wide sky above the Thames, and a collonade surrounding a green lawn, with panel after panel of white stone bearing the names of those who died.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

  • The square in front of the Odeon was a splash of white and the collonade a blur of darkness as the cab swerved round the corner and along the edge of the Luxembourg, where, through the black iron fence, many brown and reddish colors in the intricate patterns of leafless twigs opened here and there on statues and balustrades and vistas of misty distances.

    Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

  • The two are connected by a collonade, which affords all extensive view nearly a mile in length down the canal.

    World`s Columbian Exposition at Chicago Unknown 1893

  • This battle is known under three names: the Russians have called it after the village of Borodino, of 200 inhabitants, near the battlefield and have now erected a monument there, a collonade crowned with

    Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877

  • Cindy chose reblooming climbing roses to garnish the collonade-like structure with flowers and fragrance.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • The front of the building [pictured] presents a "modern version of a traditional collonade," which "plays off of other buildings" on the street.

    New Haven Independent 2009

  • Just a couple moments later, Bush and Obama were seen walking along the White House collonade to the Oval Office.

    theleafchronicle.com - Local News 2008

  • Just a couple moments later, Bush and Obama were seen walking along the White House collonade to the Oval Office.

    KELOLAND.COM: News, Weather and Sports 2008

  • a garden and vineyards, which commanded the city and bay of Naples, an ever-moving picture, and was canopied by a thick grove of pines and majestic date-trees; and, though the little portico and collonade in front were of common marble, the style of architecture was elegant.

    The Italian 2004

  • The Machinery Hall is a large structure, and Owing to the necessity for strength, its cost is beyond that of any of the Exposition buildings except that devoted to the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts. Its ornamentations are chiefly on the side facing the grand court, where the Spanish renaissance style asserts itself, and with the collonade surrounding the canal, the fountain and obelisk rising front the water, and the gondolier's presence follows out tile Spanish - Venetian plan of the Columbian Exposition.

    World`s Columbian Exposition at Chicago Unknown 1893

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