Pl. loggias, It. loggie. Also 8 erron. log(g)io. [a. It. loggia: see LODGE sb.] A gallery or arcade having one or more of its sides open to the air.
1742. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3), III. 119. Temples and Loggio’s, built in many delightful Recesses.
1762. Kames, Elem. Crit. (1774), II. 459. A logio laying the house open to the north, contrived in Italy for gathering cool air.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), I. 250. This mansion was … much improved by Sir Francis Bacon, who added Italian porticos, and loggias.
1834. Beckford, Italy, I. 116. Carved into as many grotesque wreaths of foliage as we admire in the loggie of Raphael.
1838. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 329/2. A small loggia, formed by three open arches resting upon coupled columns.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. xix. § xvi. In Italy the staircase is often in the open air, surrounding the interior court of the house, and giving access to its various galleries or loggias. Ibid. (1883), Art of Eng., v. 164. I have lived in marble palaces and under frescoed loggie.
