Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a small court inclosed by the divisions or appurtenances of a building.
- noun Any area, court, or courtyard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture An
internal courtyard , surrounded bywalls butopen to the sky
Etymologies
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Examples
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The guns that have been given to Mexico by the United States Government have been channeled to the drug cortile by criminal Mexican Federal Employees and Politicians.
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The guns that have been given to Mexico by the United States Government have been channeled to the drug cortile by criminal Mexican Federal Employees and Politicians.
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The Count had received news of his henchman's attendance with a nod, had kept him waiting two hours in the _cortile_, then remembered him and bid him upstairs.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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Durazzo-Pallavicini, is the Palazzo Balbi, which possesses the loveliest cortile in Genoa, with an orange garden, and in the Great Hall a fine gallery of pictures.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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Michelozzo, made in 1450, and covered with stucco decoration in the sixteenth century, form the cortile in which, over the fountain of
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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At the west end of the cortile stands a domed chapel with a belfry, used formerly as a mortuary chapel, since dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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After occupying various localities these mosaic works were finally settled in a cortile of the Vatican in 1825.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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To the west of the church is an open cortile, the ancient burying ground, with fourteen pillars in the wall bearing niches for the Stations of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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There had been countless nude figures in relief, but the David was intended to be seen from every side of Cosimo's _cortile_.
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905
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At the farther end it opened on a little cortile, where gnarled rose-bushes were in bloom.
Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Robert Herrick 1903
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