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- noun Plural form of
collonade .
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Examples
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Then the economy crashed, the city locked in long-term financing on their loans and the glorious Grove Arcade became a weather station in service of the U.S. military during WW II, its collonades and luscious facade boarded securely up.
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Bologna was lovely as always; nice city, good food, we were lucky and had great weather, it didn't rain even once (Bologna has something like 38 kilometers of collonades or covered sidewalks because of the inordinate amount of precipitation the city gets).
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2008
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I retreated to a corner where the front of the building joins the neo-classical collonades, where no one could see me because there's a short gate surrounding the church that must be for decoration because it certainly doesn't keep people out, and collapsed there and started to cry, rubbing my salty-teary face with striped arm-warmers.
kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2003
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The great hall and collonades and pillars of Karnac, the obelisk of Luxor, the famous tombs of the Kings, the Temples of Rameses, the colossal statues of Egyptian rulers, were visited by daylight, and, in some cases, the wondrous effect of Oriental moonlight upon these massive shapes and memorials of a mighty past was also witnessed.
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V 1893
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To and fro I paced before this skeleton -- brushed the vines aside -- broke through the ribs -- and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded collonades and arbors.
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The proposed third phase envisions restaurants, night clubs and entertainment venues centered by a grand plaza with collonades.
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We spent 3 or 4 nights at La Casona, an old convent, in the centre of the village set in glorious colourful gardens owned by a Colombian artist who´s works are all around the collonades of this white building At 25k COP per person per night This hotel was value for money and the family were helpful and did everything they could for our comfort.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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