Also 8 collonade, 8–9 colon-. [a. F. colonnade, f. colonne column, app. after It. colonnato, f. colonna column, pillar: see -ADE.]
1. Arch. A series of columns placed at regular intervals, and supporting an entablature.
1718. Lady M. W. Montague, Lett., II. 68. The vast palaces … joined together by a magnificent colonnade.
1725. Pope, Odyss., III. 511. Beneath the pompous colonade.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 485. Porticos and colonnades surrounding squares and markets.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, Stonehenge, Wks. (Bohn), II. 123. Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet.
2. transf. A similar row of trees or other objects.
1784. Cowper, Task, I. 252. Not distant far, a length of Colonnade…. These chesnuts rang’d in corresponding lines. Ibid. (1790), Poplar Field, 2.
1796. Sir J. Banks, in Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 172. Ranges of natural pillars … standing in natural colonnades.
1830. J. G. Strutt, Sylva Brit., 59. The Elm is peculiarly fitted for ‘the length of colonnade’ which our forefathers loved to make.
