Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In architecture, a small court inclosed by the divisions or appurtenances of a building.
- n. Any area, court, or courtyard.
Etymologies
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 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.
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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.
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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
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After occupying various localities these mosaic works were finally settled in a cortile of the Vatican in 1825.
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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
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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.
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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_.
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At the farther end it opened on a little cortile, where gnarled rose-bushes were in bloom.
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A broken Venus, presiding over a dusty fountain, made the centre of the cortile, and there a strapping girl from the campagna was busy trimming the stalks of a bunch of roses.
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