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colonnade , a row of columns usually supporting a roof. Colonnades were popular with the Greeks and Romans, who employed them in the stoa and the portico ; they have continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and modern times. See column .

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colonnade XVIII. — F., f. colonne COLUMN; see -ADE.

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colonnade Sets of regular columns that form the lower part of a thick lava flow showing columnar jointing and lie beneath an entablature.

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