What's the difference between colonnade and intercolumniation?

Colonnade


Definition:

  • (n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The streets used to be lined with covered colonnades, providing shade from the sun and protection from monsoon rains, but they, too, were torn down.
  • (2) In 1506, Pope Julius had the old, rectilinear St Peter’s pulled down and a new one built that would be all curves, with its famous colonnade embracing the round world.
  • (3) At first, he refused to speak, preferring to communicate by eye contact alone You’d glimpse him around the Hotel de Paris: a shadow flitting between the marble colonnades.
  • (4) Kasrils and old comrades who fear that the ANC's elite are losing their working-class credentials will have found little consolation last week when Ramaphosa addressed the media in an Edwardian-era mansion framed by Tuscan colonnades and Palladian windows, built to entertain the mining Randlords of Johannesburg.
  • (5) The city’s sprawling colonnades and Tetrapylon remain , while Isis has repurposed its amphitheatre, using it to stage mass executions of its enemies.
  • (6) The house itself is a grand 1850s colonnaded mansion, where guests can enjoy a private plunge pool and a tropical garden for undisturbed sunbathing.
  • (7) It has a colonnaded porch and neatly trimmed topiary, but several aspects of the house are definitely in breach of the Celebration pattern book.
  • (8) Another is the arch of triumph on Palmyra’s ancient colonnades, or the Roman amphitheatre that dates back to the second century AD.
  • (9) The lawyers of Yangon could have done with a little divine intervention in their recent battle against the privatisation of the former high court and police commissioner’s office, a grand classical edifice whose ionic colonnade marches around an entire city block facing the waterfront on Strand Road.
  • (10) The plain red-brick building is in the shadow of the state capitol, a grand colonnaded white house at the top end of the broad avenue.
  • (11) The National Gallery’s colonnaded splendour radiates across Trafalgar Square a sense of the importance of art in Britain’s national life.
  • (12) He expected further destruction in the coming weeks, including the agora or meeting place, colonnades and burial grounds.
  • (13) 1 Bellevue Road, +27 21 434 1929, sweetestguesthouses.com Cascades on the Promenade Facebook Twitter Pinterest While Sweet Lemon is up the hill, this colonnaded boutique hotel is almost on Sea Point’s promenade, and you can see the ocean from several of the room terraces.
  • (14) One image shows a colonnaded porch filled with blood-stained blankets, clothes and mattresses.
  • (15) They smoke on the phone and in the rain, in doorways and under colonnades.
  • (16) Hundreds of mattresses have been laid out on the floor in the City Hall's main colonnaded room, and different stalls hand out food, medicines and donated warm clothes to those who want them.
  • (17) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
  • (18) I drove up a steep private drive, which curved around to an open lawn and a white colonnaded house.
  • (19) Former inmates told us that they thought they were hallucinating when they saw a colonnade of seven dwarves dressed warmly and elegantly, as if for a Shabbat stroll.
  • (20) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).

Intercolumniation


Definition:

  • (n.) The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts.

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