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colonnade

noun as in columns

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In the carving, the temple is depicted with a classical pediment front and a colonnade of columns supporting the structure.

Inside the colonnade there were supposed to be statues of 30 famous Revolutionary War heroes.

As I have previously written in another account, our father led us down the colonnade that runs past the Oval Office.

Obama left the meeting, walked across the colonnade past the Rose Garden to the residence, to make a decision.

The porticoes of all these buildings formed a continuous colonnade by the side of the street.

Heard from granite colonnade or beneath cool linen awning, it was mellowed by distance, to monotonous music.

Through a magnificent colonnade I could see a second court on one side, where were the offices; the door was rotting.

The background, too, that colonnade “leading nowhither,” is characteristic of the change in the manner of regarding things.

While pacing the colonnade one afternoon, there appeared to him a female form of superhuman size and beauty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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