portico
IPA: pˈɔrtʌkoʊ
noun
- A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
- The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).
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Examples of "portico" in Sentences
- Behind the portico was a covered walkway leading to the villa itself.
- The form of a portico is the arrangement of its columns; the form of a melody is the order of sounds.
- Seated in state on the portico was the governor, surrounded by judges of the Supreme Court, officers, and citizens.
- At each end of the portico is a small cabinet, with appropriate paintings: in one of them a painting of Venus, Mars, and
- The portico, which is of massive dimensions, is approached by a commanding flight of granite steps, which runs round three sides of it.
- Under the portico was a marble tablet, inscribed in good Latin, to the pious memory of a Pozzo di Borgo [35], who restored the chapel in 1632.
- The western portico, which is by far the best preserved, was examined by two trenches; in 2006 we dug a test sounding within the shops behind the portico.
- The portico was a sort of trysting place for the family and visitors on summer afternoons and evenings, and some of the thirty or so Windsor chairs bought for it are still in existence.
- Close to the walls of the portico are the remains of another building, which had probably been a temple similar to the above, and not a part of the same structure, for I could not perceive any corresponding parts in the two buildings.
- In the chief street of Elgin, the houses jut over the lowest story, like the old buildings of timber in London, but with greater prominence; so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister, or portico, which is now indeed frequently broken, because the new houses have another form, but seems to have been uniformly continued in the old city.
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