Both Uses of
colonnade
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The pavement shrank to a narrow path between two walls of ancient pines, their tall, straight trunks pressing against it like a grim colonnade, their branches meeting above, swallowing the path into sudden silence and twilight.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- He looked at the long silhouette, the curves of blast furnaces standing like triumphal arches, the smokestacks rising like a solemn colonnade along an avenue of honor in an imperial city, the bridges hanging like garlands, the cranes saluting like lances, the smoke waving slowly like flags.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(colonnade) a series of regularly spaced columns -- typically covered by a roof