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Definition of Exedrae
1. exedra [n] - See also: exedra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exedrae
Literary usage of Exedrae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"Those concentric seats imitated from the Roman theatre (for the primitive Church
was not afraid of being called histrionic,) are the exedrae, the old seats ..."
2. The Antiquities of the Christian Church by Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti, Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald, Carl Christian Friedrich Siegel (1841)
"OF THE OUTER BUILDINGS, OR exedrae. Under this name were included all the ...
But the most important of the exedrae were the baptisteries which were erected ..."
3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"(e) exedrae, which appear to have been iu form much the same as the oeci, ...
They served the same purpose as the exedrae iu the Thermae and Gymnasia, ..."
4. Sculpture: The Reliefs from the Theater by Mary C. Sturgeon (1977)
"The three-storied front was embellished by three semicircular exedrae, the central
one ... Straight sections separated the exedrae and continued beyond the ..."
5. Palestine and Syria with the Chief Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Albert Socin, Immanuel Benzinger, John Punnett Peters (1906)
"The decoration of the square exedrae is somewhat less elaborate. ... The exedrae
were intended for the use of visitors, who (eg) took shelter here in bad ..."
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