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Definition
a series of regularly spaced columns
- Seeing all these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its thousand pipes?Chapters 73-75 — Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; The Sperm Whale's Head, The Right Whale's Head (93% in)
- To and fro I paced before this skeleton—brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs—and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbours.Chapters 100-102 — The Pequod meets....; The Decanter; A Bower in the Arsacides (91% in)
There are no more uses of "colonnade" in Moby Dick.
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