colonnade
noun
a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually one side of a roof.
colonnaded
-
a word derived from
colonnade.
Example Sentences
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Palladio liked to set the formal residence at the center while holding the working parts—stables and kitchens—at arm’s length, reached by colonnaded passages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Classrooms have been created in the city's ornate Soviet-era metro stations, some with views of chandeliers hanging over colonnaded platforms below.
From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023
The work is installed throughout the two grand colonnaded halls flanking an octagonal room that make up the Duveen Galleries, as the museum’s 300-foot spine is known.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Once across the Potomac, the dignitaries met the casket at the cemetery’s colonnaded brick, granite and marble amphitheater.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
In the broad, covered corridor—the colonnaded kuthambalam abutting the heart of the temple where the Blue God lived with his flute, the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, their colors turning slowly in the night.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
