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Enfilade
A suite of rooms whose doorways are aligned on one axis, so that a view runs through them all; typical of Baroque palaces.
See also: Axis
Rules that use the word
The pleasure house in its garden. Give a pleasure house a single principal storey of rooms in enfilade round a central salon that projects into the garden, open on to the parterres through tall windows, and set it where its axis continues into the garden’s allées.
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