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Webster 1913 Edition
Colonnade
Colˊon-nade′
,Noun.
(Arch.)
A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
☞ When in front of a building, it is called a
portico
; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle
. Webster 1828 Edition
Colonnade
COLONNADE
,Noun.
1.
In architecture, a peristyle of a circular figure, or a series of columns, disposed in a circle, and insulated within side.2.
Any series of range of columns.A polystyle colonnade is a range of columns too great to be taken in by the eye at a single view; as that of the palace of St. Peter at Rome, consisting of 284 columns of the Doric order.