All 5 Uses of
colonnade
in
Bleak House
- So Mr. Kenge gave me his arm and we went round the corner, under a colonnade, and in at a side door.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- When we got under the colonnade, Mr. Kenge remembered that he must go back for a moment to ask a question and left us in the fog, with the Lord Chancellor's carriage and servants waiting for him to come out.†
Chpt 1-3
- …of jingling and whip-cracking, and many plunging demonstrations on the part of two bare-backed horses and two centaurs with glazed hats, jack-boots, and flowing manes and tails, they rattle out of the yard of the Hotel Bristol in the Place Vendome and canter between the sun-and-shadow-chequered colonnade of the Rue de Rivoli and the garden of the ill-fated palace of a headless king and queen, off by the Place of Concord, and the Elysian Fields, and the Gate of the Star, out of Paris.†
Chpt 10-12
- I shall take my little meal, I think, at the French house, in the Opera Colonnade.†
Chpt 13-15
- And still, as we went through the pretty rooms, out at the little rustic verandah doors, and underneath the tiny wooden colonnades garlanded with woodbine, jasmine, and honey-suckle, I saw in the papering on the walls, in the colours of the furniture, in the arrangement of all the pretty objects, MY little tastes and fancies, MY little methods and inventions which they used to laugh at while they praised them, my odd ways everywhere.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(colonnade) a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof