arcade
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Gilligan, a judge on popular ITV series The Masked Singer, recalled spending days on the beach and riding the log flume at the fun park as well playing the penny arcade machines.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The company, he said, will open a "cultural, artistic, fashion, art, retail food experience" in Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the ornate 19th century shopping arcade where the first Prada boutique opened in 1913.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
An arcade, arts-and-crafts studio or children’s museum is a natural location for a kid’s birthday party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Tearful supporters at a California Working Families Party shindig at the Mission Control bar and arcade in downtown Santa Ana hugged Lopez, gifted her flowers and wished her well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
We were standing under the arcade at the door of the hotel.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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The rest is “walk-in retail,” which includes bowling, arcades, food and beverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Eleri said it eventually became a business and she made £35,000 in profit before opening the shop in one of Cardiff's arcades this week.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Some 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, according to the Japan Amusement Industry Association.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
And while a modern Chuck E. Cheese is school-cafeteria bright, Chuck’s Arcade is dark, its black walls and low lighting recalling the arcades of the ’80s and ’90s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
He wasn’t wearing a turban, but the Mr. Lemoncello mannequin reminded Kyle of the Zoltar Speaks fortune-teller booths he’d seen in video game arcades.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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Installed in the winter-bare garden of an ancient arcaded courtyard were vertical braziers holding firewood.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018
The chapel was very small with a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014
From arcaded passageways, the museums open onto a domed chapel and a peaceful courtyard with the new Charité Café and a general bookstore.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2013
There are two streets which are arcaded, where activities are limited, eg preventing the playing of radios or busking.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2012
The elaborately arcaded and sculptured west front of Ferrara cathedral is a screen to an early building.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
An old oak screen running under five arches of the arcading to the north side of the aisle separates the Derby Chapel from the aisle.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.
It may be mentioned here that underneath these last windows, on the outside, there is an arcading with simple pointed arches which does not appear on the other transept.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.
A plain stone gallery with blind arcading, which formerly ran round the chevet on a level with the springing of the roof, was replaced by Viollet-le-Duc, with pierced battlemented arcading.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
The view from just inside the south porch showing the four rows of arcading separating the outer aisles from the inner, and these from the central nave, is very fine.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.
The front has a large late Norman portal of four orders, with rich Early English arcading above; the nave arcade is ornate Norman.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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