Exedrae

Word EXEDRAE
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Exedrae"

What do we mean by exedrae?

A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion.

(by extension) A curved bench with a high back.

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The word "exedrae" in example sentences

The function of these exedrae still remains uncertain. ❋ Unknown (2003)

On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument. ❋ Various (N/A)

The cornice does not project sufficiently to be the cornice of a building, and, as it is decorated on either side, it could not have been intended for a string-course, as none of the walls are so thin as these stones, although I at first thought it might belong to one of the semi-circular _exedrae_. ❋ Charles E. Davis (N/A)

The vault, if there was one, over the semi-circular _exedrae_ must have been hemispherical. ❋ Charles E. Davis (N/A)

Unfortunately this brought into prominence the irregularity of the size and position of the _exedrae_, and the pilasters were affixed correctly with reference to the arcade, as was absolutely necessary, but more or less trespassing on the width of the opening of these recesses, and notched into the original pilasters. ❋ Charles E. Davis (N/A)

On either side, north and south, are three recesses, or _exedrae_, two of which are circular and one (the centre) rectangular. ❋ Charles E. Davis (N/A)

Picture galleries, like exedrae, should be constructed of generous dimensions. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

In summer apartments and in exedrae where there is no smoke nor soot to hurt them, they should be made in relief. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

But in the case of exedrae or square oeci, let the height be brought up to one and one half times the width. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

Hence, though it keeps its colour perfectly when applied in the polished stucco finish of closed apartments, yet in open apartments, such as peristyles or exedrae or other places of the sort, where the bright rays of the sun and moon can penetrate, it is spoiled by contact with them, loses the strength of its colour, and turns black. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

As the original pilasters on the north and south walls do not correspond with these piers, I am led to conclude that the _schola_ and _exedrae_, north and south, were not vaulted at first, and were the only portion of the hall that was roofed, and that the roof was only of timber, supported by an arcade, the arches not exceeding 17ft. in height, and that the eaves of the roof of about 22ft. in height dipped towards the bath. ❋ Charles E. Davis (N/A)

The walls on the sides towards the hall, and externally, so far as I have been able to ascertain, are covered with the usual red plaster, shewing that they were internal walls; but from a piece of dentilled, or rather blocked, cornice, which fits the curve of one of the _exedrae_, I believe the walls were carried up on the north and south above the roofs of the adjoining rooms and corridors of the baths, so that they formed a feature in the elevation and afforded a broken skyline to the composition. ❋ Charles E. Davis (N/A)

Such apartments have fine entrance courts with imposing front doors of their own; the colonnades of the peristyles are decorated with polished stucco in relief and plain, and with coffered ceilings of woodwork; off the colonnades that face the north they have Cyzicene dining rooms and picture galleries; to the east, libraries; exedrae to the west; and to the south, large square rooms of such generous dimensions that four sets of dining couches can easily be arranged in them, with plenty of room for serving and for the amusements. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

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