arcade

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

noun

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
   The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches. January 12 2022, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31
2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

verb

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
   its trottoirs brick-paved, and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage— conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China,”—these in places completely arcading the street 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 25, in The Death Shot,, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 224