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Columned

adjective

Having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form). "Trees with columned trunks" , "White-columned houses"

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"Columned" Quotes from Famous Books

... found the columned niches designed by McKim, Mead and White, each ornamented with a fountain. The back wall made a splendid effect as it reached ...

— The City of Domes • John D. Barry

... was left alone without receiving any counsel or advice regarding what he was to do. This carelessness seemed to him like indifference, and indicated a general laxness in the temple servants. Therefore he again entered the columned hall. He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk. There was no hope of the fifteen ells of water which the earth needed for ...

— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg

... to Eaton Hall, the seat of the Duke of Westminster, the many-millioned lord of a good part of London. It is a palace, high-roofed, marble-columned, vast, magnificent, everything but homelike, and perhaps homelike to persons born and bred in such edifices. A painter like Paul Veronese finds a palace like this not too grand for his banqueting scenes. But to those ...

— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... nothing more subduing than the charm, quieter and less analytic, of any sort of complete and out-of-the-common-run sort of house. To sit in a room like the one I was sitting in, with the figures of the tapestry glimmering grey and lilac and purple in the twilight, the great bed, columned and curtained, looming in the middle, and the embers reddening beneath the overhanging mantelpiece of inlaid Italian stonework, a vague scent of rose-leaves and spices, put into the china bowls by the hands of ...

— Hauntings • Vernon Lee

... off into the main current; once more we were in that roaring torrent, with its fearsome dips and rises, its columned walls corroded with age and filled with the gloom of eternal twilight. The water smashed and battered us, whirled us along relentlessly, lashed us in heavy sprays; yet with closed eyes and thudding hearts we waited. ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

Words linked to "Columned" : colonnaded, amphistylar, combining form, noncolumned, columnar, columniform, columnlike, pillared