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13:02 Feb 1, 2008

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French term or phrase: arcades aérées

Contexte:

"Ce qui frappe le plus dans les structures de la cour sont les **arcades aérées,** typiques de la meilleure tradition chevalresque du gothique international."

Merci!

femme

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Explanation:
I don't think it's specifically an architectural term, but means rather :

light, broad, lofty, open, wide, with a notion of the ratio of arch width to column width, so "slender-columned arcade", maybe.

Not piddling little skinny arches with massive hulking great columns that let no light in.

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Light and airy?

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One of Europe's oldest "malls," the glass-roofed Galeries Royales St-Hubert (Métro: Gare Centrale) is A LIGHT AND AIRY ARCADE hosting boutiques, restaurants ...
www.frommers.com/destinations/brussels/0104010031.html

The lobby, which stretches the length of the front of the hotel, is a LIGHT AND AIRY ARCADE tiled with pale cream marble. The Gazebo Bar extends directly ...
www.epinions.com/content_16222817924

One of Europe's oldest shopping malls, the Galeries Royales St-Hubert, is a LIGHT AND AIRY ARCADE hosting boutiques, cafe terraces, and street musicians ...
dest.travelocity.com/DestGuides/0,1840,AOLSVC%7C1783%7C%7C%7C0104028043%7CF%7CN,00.htm

high north facing glass wall with deep oversailing eaves with a SLENDER COLUMNED ARCADE returning the new east west route to the station. ...
www.worthing.gov.uk/.../ProposedLargeDevelopments/TevilleGa...

Though it would be good if you had a picture to confirm.

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Bourth
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airy archways, porticoes

Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche

open arcades

Christopher Crockett

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Merci.

36 mins confidence:

open arcades

Explanation:
Yet another term I've not seen before (but then I've never done much research on Charlemagne's stables).

The only thing that comes to mind, lacking a visual aid, is something like "open arcades" --as opposed to, say, blind arcades (arcades which don't pierece the wall).

What Charlemagne's stables could possibly have in common with "gothique international" is quite beyond me.

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My first thought was of the open tracery we see in the mature gothic of the 13th c. and later.

Look closely at this:

http://ica.princeton.edu/langland/viewrecord.php

Note that the tracery in the lower level of the apse is "doubled" --there is a kind of screen of tracery in front of the glass itself. This effect is sometimes call "diaphanous." It apparently evolved from the idea of having a "glazed" triforium, like here:

http://ica.princeton.edu/langland/viewrecord.php
(the triforium is the element between the main arcade and the clerestory, visible on either side of the transept crossing here)

But I'd be quite astonished to see anything like this in the stables of Louis IX, much less those of Charlemagne.

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