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arcades

noun

plural of arcade

as in cloisters

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Recent Examples of arcades Though some arcades only have regular claw machines, the Pians' arcade has many different ways to play. — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025

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My room overlooked the cloisters and chapel to the rear and the Gulf of Salerno to the front (from its own hot-tub terrace).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Several portraits in medallions high on the walls of the cloisters show decapitated Dominican Friars who worked as inquisitors with just a stump for a neck and their heads held in their hands.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026

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The main house has seven en suite bedrooms along with triple piazzas overlooking the grounds.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2026
Rome’s cultural superintendent, Claudio Parisi Presicce, said the grandeur of the port city as depicted in the fresco, with buildings, a theater and temple, public piazzas and towers, was particularly well conserved.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

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