arcade
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The idea of opening a vaccination clinic inside a town centre shopping arcade seemed odd to some of the staff when it was first suggested.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
Aesthetes had been howling about the Freedom 250 set, a soaring, 92-foot tall structure which resembled one of those arcade machine claws in which you try and fail to grab a stuffed hippopotamus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
“I ordered a new computer and stuff online. And Aidan, Luke, and I went to laser tag, and an arcade, and a go-cart track. I would have invited you, but I didn’t have your number.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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Reductions to tax relief for vape shops and gambling arcades will help to pay for the £100 million a year cost of the measure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The rest is “walk-in retail,” which includes bowling, arcades, food and beverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
Not churches, not schools — Chuck E. Cheese-style pizza arcades, where the air smells like old fryer oil and fresh anticipation, and an animatronic animal band plays on, unfazed by the passing decades.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025
The air on the way to Madame Ruelles bakery smells of myrtle and magnolia and verbena; wisteria vines erupt in blossom; everywhere hang arcades and curtains and pendants of flowers.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
History and Coffee During the Roman era, some 20,000 spectators would fill the stone seats of the arcaded amphitheater in what is now Piazza Sant’Oronzo.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 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
On the morning after the arrival of Mr. Herriott's guests, breakfast had been served on the long, arcaded piazza, where stood three circular tables, each bright and fragrant from central piles of flowers and fruit.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
Without further speech they turned into it, and rode on beneath the shadow of trees, whose branches, arcading over, hindered sight of the sun.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Both walls have an arcading of cinque-foil pattern; and the double piscina and the graduated sedilia are of no less merit.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
Above the side portals, the surface of which was decorated with arcading, were gables lighted by rose-windows.
From Ypres and the Battles of Ypres by Unknown
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
The beautiful fluting round the clerestory windows is still more noteworthy, and also the arcading beneath those of the south aisle both within and without.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
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