Loggia

Word LOGGIA
Character 6
Hyphenation ‖Log gia
Pronunciations /ˈloʊd͡ʒə/

Definitions and meanings of "Loggia"

What do we mean by loggia?

An open-sided, roofed or vaulted gallery, either free-standing or along the front or side of a building, often at an upper level. noun

An open balcony in a theater. noun

In Italian arch. noun

A gallery or areade in a building, properly at the height of one or more stories, running along the front or part of the front of the building, and open on at least one side to the air, on which side is a series of pillars or slender piers. noun

A large ornamental window in the middle of the chief story of a building, often projecting from the wall, as seen in old Venetian palaces. noun

A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room. noun

A roofed, open gallery. noun

A roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level noun

A roofed, open gallery, usually on an upper level.

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The word "loggia" in example sentences

It's a kind of outdoor room, properly called a loggia, poised at the top of a flight of steps. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Beyond the loggia was an acre of terraced lawn and more topiary. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1987)

In the loggia are the paintings known collectively as Raphael's Bible. ❋ Jennie Ellis Keysor (N/A)

At one end of the loggia is a hexagonal turret, opening upon the loggia, containing a study or nook. ❋ Unknown (1906)

I am sitting in the loggia, which is delightful in the morning freshness. ❋ Woodberry, George E (1902)

Tiberio then caused the said loggia, which is the one facing the meadows, to be painted by Girolamo Sermoneta; which finished, the rest of the rooms were entrusted in part to Luzio Romano, and finally the halls and other important apartments were finished partly by Perino with his own hand, and partly by others after his cartoons. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

After passing the great loggia, which is adorned with stucco-work and with many arms and various other bizarre ornaments, one comes to some rooms filled with such a variety of fantasies, that the brain reels at the thought of them. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

And it had walls of black lava, and a "loggia," where green slime grew over the tiled floor, and where the spider-webs were so thick that the nimble lizards were almost held fast in them. ❋ Unknown (1915)

A kind of loggia in Italian style, with five arches sustained by slender columns, extended to the foot of the stairway, the doors of which gave access to the two upper wings of the building opening at either end. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

Directly opposite, and two stories above their heads, a sort of huge "loggia," one blaze of gilding and crude vermilions, opened in the gray cement of a crumbling facade, like a sudden burst of flame. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

After they had returned to Padua, a beginning was made with building from the design and model of Falconetto that most beautiful and ornate loggia which is in the house of the Cornari, near the Santo; and the palace was to be erected next, after the model made by Messer Luigi himself. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

For the same Bishop he designed a loggia which issues from the Palace and leads to the Vescovado, on the same level with both. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

The facade of Martin E. Thompson's Bank of 1822-24, moved from Wall Street, forms the entrance to the galleries, with Louis Comfort Tiffany's exotic 1905 loggia for his own home, Laurelton Hall, across the way. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2011)

Just eight months before, after dusk on Oct. 16, 1978, a cardinal had stepped out onto the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica to say those towering, august words, "Habemus papem"—"We have a pope." ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)

At the court's periphery, the flower-topped columns and golden glass lanterns of Louis Comfort Tiffany's garden loggia at Laurelton Hall evoke a lost world of decorative magnificence and sumptuous style. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2012)

In 1978, the McKeans gave Laurelton Hall's monumental garden loggia to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it's now part of the courtyard of the American Wing. ❋ Stuart Ferguson (2011)

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