The AI-powered English dictionary
plural stoae or stoæ or stoai or stoas
In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens. quotations examples
They could not vote, attend the theater, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson