From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishloggialog‧gi‧a /ˈlɒdʒiə $ ˈloʊdʒə/ noun [countable] an open area with a floor and a roof that is built on the side of a house on the ground floor
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loggia• It has five domes on drums and a belfry, also a loggia.• Outside the kitchen would be a loggia, with a glazed roof.• Entrance to the remaining four is from a loggia at the back of the villa.• The campanile dates from the first building and has a delightful bell loggia.• The campanile finishes with a galleried loggia, its conical roof topped with a gilded statue of the Archangel Michael.• In places the platform loggia was formed of a row of Doric columns, as at Negombo.• There is a spacious loggia, and several nooks well out of the wind.• The main bedroom has balconies over the west-facing stone loggia and the bay window of the drawing-room. 