loggia
Americannoun
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a gallery or arcade open to the air on at least one side.
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a space within the body of a building but open to the air on one side, serving as an open-air room or as an entrance porch.
noun
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a covered area on the side of a building, esp one that serves as a porch
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an open balcony in a theatre
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Etymology
Origin of loggia
From Italian, dating back to 1735–45; see origin at lodge
Vocabulary lists containing loggia
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“A defining highlight of the first floor is the breathtaking loggia, opening to a 100-foot west-facing terrace that frames unobstructed river views,” the listing notes.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
While such preparatory drawings often focused on the figures alone, Filippino devotes equal attention to the architectural setting, in this case an open loggia on which the saint is enthroned and surrounded by angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Francis’ address from the loggia marked his main appearance for Christmas Day, though he is expected to deliver a blessing on Tuesday, the feast of St. Stephen, which is also a holiday in Italy.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
The site in Trastevere identified as the oldest synagogue in Rome — a humble brick house with a small arched loggia at narrow, cobbled Vicolo dell’Atleta, 14 — is not classical but medieval.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
We followed him through one or two rooms to the open loggia, which was crowded.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
The seven-bedroom main residence is Mediterranean in style, with a dramatic entry atrium, high coffered ceilings, expansive living and entertaining areas, covered loggias and a club-style game room and billiards lounge with a full bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Outside, cozy courtyards and loggias fill out the landscaped grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
Those renovations enclosed Johnson and Burgee’s open-air loggias with retail spaces.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
Permanent structures like loggias, gazebos, and covered patios can solve both problems.
From Southern Living ● Sep. 3, 2010
Walpole infers that Isaac and Solomon de Caus were brothers, and that they erected, in conjunction with each other, "the porticos and loggias of Gorhambury, and part of Campden house, near Kensington."
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John
We walked at night in the open galleries of the cathedral cloister—white, smoothly curving, well-proportioned loggie, enclosing a green space, whence soars the campanile to the stars.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
In like manner, he executed a courtyard in chiaroscuro for Signor ..., with some loggie, which are very beautiful, rich in ornaments, and well painted.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto by De Vere, Gaston du C.
The private apartment occupies the second floor, according to Italian reckoning, though we Americans should call it the third; it is on a level with Raphael's loggie.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Among the paintings of this palace, the most beautiful are Raffaelle's frescos in the stanze and loggie.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
Wherefore he was afterwards able to make the loggie, the refectory, the infirmary, the noviciate, the dormitory, and the library, with the other principal rooms proper to a monastery, on one plane.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi by De Vere, Gaston du C.
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