Crossword-Solution: EXEDRAE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exedrae | pl. | of Exedra |
We have 4 clues for the answer “EXEDRAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Curved outdoor benches | 1 answer |
| Out-of-door benches. | 1 answer |
| Semicircular outdoor benches. | 1 answer |
| Semicircular sitting rooms of old | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXEDRAE (5)
But in the case of exedrae or square oeci, let the height be brought up to one and one half times the width.
Afterwards they made such progress as to represent the forms of buildings, and of columns, and projecting and overhanging pediments; in their open rooms, such as exedrae, on account of the size, they depicted the façades of scenes in the tragic, comic, or satyric style; and their walks, on account of the great length, they decorated with a variety of landscapes, copying the characteristics of definite spots.
Hence, though it keeps its colour perfectly when applied in the polished stucco finish of closed apartments, yet in open apartments, such as peristyles or exedrae or other places of the sort, where the bright rays of the sun and moon can penetrate, it is spoiled by contact with them, loses the strength of its colour, and turns black.
Inwardly disturbed, yet meeting the lady's look with a smile, Coryna turned aside between the marble columns into one of the _exedrae_ or rooms for conversation.
Returning to the outside, (1) and (18) and the corresponding places on the other side are supposed to have been the exedrae for philosophers, and places corresponding to the Greek xysti.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–2012).