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The term "colonnade" is frequently employed in literature to evoke both architectural precision and an atmosphere of grandeur or mystery. It often denotes an orderly array of columns framing a building or space, imbuing the scene with classical elegance and historical resonance. In some works, it establishes a sense of stately setting, as when a broad colonnade outlines the façade of an impressive mansion [1] or supports monumental structures with richly carved pillars [2]. In other narratives, authors draw on the colonnade to create intimate, reflective space, inviting readers to imagine characters moving quietly beneath its arches [3, 4]. Beyond its physical description, the colonnade also functions metaphorically to suggest timeless order and serene beauty, whether in depictions of ancient temple remains or as a luminous corridor in otherwise shadowed realms [5, 6, 7].
  1. As usual it was full of boarders, was very large, and had a broad colonnade to every story of the house.
    — from American Notes by Charles Dickens
  2. The great entrance hall was surrounded by a colonnade of svelt marble columns, and in the centre ascended a monumental marble staircase.
    — from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
  3. So Mr. Kenge gave me his arm and we went round the corner, under a colonnade, and in at a side door.
    — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  4. Leaning over the balcony I gazed eagerly up towards the white colonnade of the St. Charles, glistening and brilliant in the moonlight.
    — from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King
  5. It is 50 feet in diameter and each of its 20 Corinthian columns which constitute the circular colonnade around it, is 32 feet high.
    — from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner
  6. Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you can see, beneath a marble colonnade.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  7. Suddenly in the north, directly before me, began the flashings of the aurora—piles of splendor, a celestial colonnade to the invisible palace.
    — from Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord by George William Curtis

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