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1 Roman garden planted with groves of plane-trees, usually laid out with flower-beds and surrounded with a colonnaded ambulatory, like a cloister.
2 Long covered portico, open-sided colonnade, or court used for athletic exercises in Ancient Greece.
3 Covered promenade.
4 Church ambulatory.
5 Long loggia or verandah.
6 Hypaethral walk, shaded by trees.
7 Part of a Roman house, bigger than an atrium, surrounded by a peristyle, and planted in the middle.
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