'colonnade' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a row of columns supporting a roof or entablature, or a series of arches supported by columns. Example: The grand entrance to the museum was framed by a magnificent colonnade, leading visitors into the main hall.
IT IS only a mile or so from the colonnade of the Supreme Court to some of Washington, DC's most dangerous neighbourhoods.
A bronze statue of Winston Churchill stands in front of the open-air colonnade of Thames Bar, looking towards an elderly man sitting on a bench on the other side of the plaza.
This narthex was commonly fronted by a colonnade and, in many cases, opened onto a court surrounded by either colonnades or arcades.
The monument consists of a semicircular pillared colonnade displaying statues of Hungarian kings and national leaders, with a statue of the archangel Gabriel surmounting a 118-foot-high central column.
His brother Attalus II (159 138 bc), who had studied at Athens under the philosopher Carneades, head of the New Academy, likewise gave a colonnade.
This colonnade was broken at the centre by the entrance to a large temple of Venus that projected out behind the theatre.
Last November, the work began to build three showers alongside the public restrooms under St Peter's colonnades.
Thus the galleries and gardens, the courts and colonnades of Knole have been paced by many bitter wives, sisters and daughters.In this section When the myths are blown away Who killed the Soviet economy?
Indeed, the night is a celebration of German-ness: the country's baroque past opened up for das Volk, an opportunity for the moderns to stroll like Prussian kings through the park's temples and colonnades.
Down below, the ancient forum, with its temples and colonnades and courtyards, spreads out towards the the Colosseum.
(These colonnades, now part of Coram's Fields children's park, are the only part of the original 18th-century property still standing today).Smallpox was a major cause of child mortality at the time and Mead instituted a massive programme of inoculation at the Foundling Hospital.
