loggia
Americannoun
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loggias,
plural
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loggie
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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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of loggia
From Italian, dating back to 1735–45; see origin at lodge
Vocabulary lists containing loggia
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The property also boasted 2.76 acres, a loggia, and a pool.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 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
Speaking from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to the throngs of people below, Francis said he grieved the “abominable attack” of Hamas against southern Israel on Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Within an hour, he appeared on its loggia before hundreds of thousands of onlookers and announced his name, Benedict XVI.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
I shall never be dressed in time for anything in the morning, as I am always on the loggia.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
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
The wide country leading to Italy lies below her, the peaks of the rocky coast, the blue sea, the gray-green olives billowing like tides from hill to hill; the white loggias gleaming in the sunlight.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
It is incredible, but he proposed to make there a theatre for the crowning of the Pontiffs, with gardens, loggie, aqueducts, fountains, chapels, libraries, and a most beautiful building set apart for the Conclave.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna by Gaston du C. De Vere
On the ground-floor there are two courtyards with magnificent loggie, on which open saloons, chambers, antechambers, studies, closets, stove-rooms, kitchens, wells, and staircases both secret and public, all most convenient.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi by Gaston du C. De Vere
From his design, likewise, were made the marble loggie from which the Pope gives his benediction—a very great work, as may still be seen to-day.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna by Gaston du C. De Vere
From the /stanze/ Narcisse took Pierre to the /loggie/, those glazed galleries which are so high and so delicately decorated.
From The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2 by Émile Zola
On the piazza, under the shadow of the beautiful loggie, the market-women are gathering up the bright fruits from the stalls and folding their red umbrellas, and thanking the saint for a profitable feast-day.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
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