Definition of Exedrae. Meaning of Exedrae. Synonyms of Exedrae

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Definition of Exedrae

Exedrae
Exedra Ex"e*dra, n.; pl. Exedr[ae]. [L., fr. Gr ?; ? out + ? seat.] 1. (Class. Antiq.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats. 2. (Arch.) (a) The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form. (b) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.

Meaning of Exedrae from wikipedia

- An exedra (pl.: exedras or exedrae) is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's...
- walls which enclosed the piazza to the west and east featured exedrae; outside the exedrae, separated by streets, were markets of concentric shape. The...
- four semi-domes, each of which is flanked by three smaller semi-domes or exedrae. Four smaller domes cover the corners of the prayer hall. On the outside...
- double depth to protect against the weather. Rounded halls with seats (exedrae, ἐξέδραι) were built along the single depth sides of the palaestra for...
- Corinthian order, a high surrounding wall with protruding niches (oikoi, exedrae) at its long sides, an inner courtyard surrounded by columns and a decorative...
- placed along the left side of the Forum and in the left exedrae, the entire right side and right exedrae were full of statues of men in the Julian-Claudian...
- a garden, lounging rooms, gymnasiums, and small halls and semicircular exedrae used as lecture and reading rooms. Rectangular halls connected to the hemicycle...
- substructures, Harrison also posited the existence of a pair of two-storey exedrae, composed of three niches with a pier in between, on the northern and southern...
- the Forum Augustum as phallic, "with its two semi-circular galleries or exedrae as the ****s and its long projecting forecourt as the shaft". The outsized...
- antechoir. Many effects in the building were later used in Hagia Sophia: the exedrae expand the central nave on diagonal axes, colourful columns screen the...