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[ahr-keyd] / ɑrˈkeɪd /


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The idea of opening a vaccination clinic inside a town centre shopping arcade seemed odd to some of the staff when it was first suggested.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

The company, he said, will open a "cultural, artistic, fashion, art, retail food experience" in Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the ornate 19th century shopping arcade where the first Prada boutique opened in 1913.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

An arcade, arts-and-crafts studio or children’s museum is a natural location for a kid’s birthday party.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The new model was flashy, black-light entertainment with thumping music, huge video screens, arcade games and claw machines, along with upscale food and drink at double or triple the prices of standard bowling-alley fare.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

The white-paper announcements of the unloading of the bulls and the big schedules of special trains were still up on the pillars of the arcade.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Reductions to tax relief for vape shops and gambling arcades will help to pay for the £100 million a year cost of the measure.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Eleri said it eventually became a business and she made £35,000 in profit before opening the shop in one of Cardiff's arcades this week.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Instead of water parks and arcades there are private spas and secluded pools.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 18, 2026

And while a modern Chuck E. Cheese is school-cafeteria bright, Chuck’s Arcade is dark, its black walls and low lighting recalling the arcades of the ’80s and ’90s.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2025

Below its surface, Archaide housed thousands of classic video arcades, each one a loving re-creation of an actual arcade that had once existed somewhere in the real world.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Installed in the winter-bare garden of an ancient arcaded courtyard were vertical braziers holding firewood.

From New York Times Jan. 22, 2018

The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2014

From arcaded passageways, the museums open onto a domed chapel and a peaceful courtyard with the new Charité Café and a general bookstore.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2013

There are two streets which are arcaded, where activities are limited, eg preventing the playing of radios or busking.

From The Guardian Jun. 17, 2012

It stands, welcoming the stranger, at the very gateway of the city, its grand axe extending off, in arcaded perspective, over four hundred and twenty feet, with room inside for thirty thousand souls.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

These sills are panelled with a foliated arcading, and in front of the passage there is an open trefoil work parapet.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.

The east end is partly covered with flat arcading, most elaborately carved with Arabic design, and partly with a black and red pattern of the same character.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

Above the side portals, the surface of which was decorated with arcading, were gables lighted by rose-windows.

From Ypres and the Battles of Ypres by Unknown

There are three apses; the middle one has two rows of blind arcading with ornamental brickwork above.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

The arcading in the remaining bay is similar, but angels' heads with wings take up the whole spandrel.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.




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