colonnade
noun
col·on·nade
ˌkä-lə-ˈnād 
: a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure
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A colonnade surrounds the courtyard.
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An inspector found that on one of the colonnades, for example, porch columns are beginning to separate from the brick; exterior walls have wood rot and water damage; and the floors on the inside are beginning to sag and could collapse.
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Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
Thomas Jefferson added colonnades, Andrew Jackson the North Portico and Theodore Roosevelt the West Wing, to provide the Oval Office for presidents and space for their staff.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
In contrast to Pei’s modernist pyramid, officials want the new entrance to blend into the 17th-century colonnade.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
According to a report by French daily Le Monde, translated in the New York Times, Louvre director Laurence des Cars has called for the new entrance to merge with the surrounding architecture, that being the seventeenth-century colonnade of the museum’s eastern façade, near the Seine River.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 July 2025
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Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
Thomas Jefferson added colonnades, Andrew Jackson the North Portico and Theodore Roosevelt the West Wing, to provide the Oval Office for presidents and space for their staff.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
In contrast to Pei’s modernist pyramid, officials want the new entrance to blend into the 17th-century colonnade.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
According to a report by French daily Le Monde, translated in the New York Times, Louvre director Laurence des Cars has called for the new entrance to merge with the surrounding architecture, that being the seventeenth-century colonnade of the museum’s eastern façade, near the Seine River.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 July 2025
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“Colonnade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colonnade. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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colonnade
noun
col·on·nade
ˌkäl-ə-ˈnād
: an evenly spaced row of columns usually supporting the base of a roof structure
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