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- noun Plural form of
columniation .
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Examples
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The house of Narcissus is distinguished by the elegance of its peristyle; the inter-columniations are filled up by a dwarf wall, which is hollowed at the top, probably to receive earth for the cultivation of select flowers.
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Its inter-columniations are filled up by a dwarf wall painted red, the lower part of the columns being painted blue.
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Draperies of gold and crimson decked the columns, and spread their shadows from the inter-columniations over the marble pavement.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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They were entered from this court, each through a portico of five inter-columniations.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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An arcade, with its stately pillars, divided two of the rooms, and the inter-columniations were ornamented with statues and statuettes; and upon a marble table, in the centre of one of the apartments, was a blooming magnolia, the first one I had ever seen!
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Mr. Fergusson regards these bases as marking the position of the doors in his front wall; and they are certainly in places where doors might have been looked for, if the building had a front wall, since the openings are exactly opposite the inter-columniations of the pillars, both in the portico and in the main cluster.
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Its roof is supported on either side by columns of white marble; the inter-columniations are filled by colossal statues, of gilded brass, of the electors and kings of the country.
Sketches Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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This season a strong majority of my columniations have been centered around the youth movement currently tearing its way through the ol 'game.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2009
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