Definition of Exedras. Meaning of Exedras. Synonyms of Exedras

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Definition of Exedras

Exedra
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 Exedras 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...
- City of Aguascalientes Clockwise from top: San Antonio de Padua Church, La Exedra (main square), Aguascalientes Opera House, Cerro del Muerto, Plaza Bosques...
- with a surface that widens into large semicircular exedras. Recently one more slightly smaller exedra was found south on the wall bordering the Forum of...
- The Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome Hotel (formerly the Boscolo Exedra Roma) is a five-star luxury hotel in Piazza della Repubblica, Rome situated near the...
- architecture. Also along the north portico on each side of the vestibule are two exedras, one with a remaining polychrome mosaic. Below these buildings was a cryptoporticus...
- Bucculatrix exedra is a species of moth of the family Bucculatricidae. It is found in ****an (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu) and India. It was first described...
- recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra. In Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Christian church (including cathedral...
- around 10 p.m. on the floor of his hotel room's bathroom at the Boscolo Exedra Hotel. Michael called reception, who in turn called paramedics, and Gandolfini...
- square courtyard in front of the villa (1707) and then added the monumental exedra(1718). Between 1730 and 1740 Giovanni Ziborghi added height to Rossi’s barchesse...
- materials such as bricks, tuff, marble and metal clamps. Near the Great Exedra hundreds of marble fragments together with the chisel used to tear them...