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Definition of Exhedra
1. n. See Exedra.
Definition of Exhedra
1. Noun. (alternative form of exedra) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exhedra
1. exedra [n -DRAE] - See also: exedra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhedra
Literary usage of Exhedra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age: Their Architectural by Thomas Moule (1833)
"The exhedra was a ... but he does not give the name of exhedra to a mere semicircular
seat; as it is so well understood to imply hall, ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1877)
"restorations of existing structures of inferior material, and that the exhedra
was a new decoration of the Stadium. This inference agrees singularly with ..."
3. Buried Herculaneum by Ethel Ross Barker (1908)
"At the end of the road, which is nearly as long as the garden, was the exhedra,
looking over the sea. The floor was2 paved with African marble and giallo ..."
4. A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy ...: Being a Guide for the by John Murray (Firm) (1865)
"... opens on the 1. a handsome exhedra, the walls of which are decorated ...
adjoining the exhedra, .entered also by a narrow passage from the street,is a ..."
5. The Archæology of Rome by John Henry Parker (1874)
"The same arrangement may be seen in the wall of the exhedra (or hemi- circle of
... It occurs also in the great exhedra of the emperors on the Palatine, ..."
6. The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1886)
"exhedra, -ae.—Such is the usual form of the word ; the diminutive, ... Each professor
had a separate exhedra, or lecture-room: see Cod. Theod. ..."
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