Portico

Word PORTICO
Character 7
Hyphenation por ti co
Pronunciations /ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/

Definitions and meanings of "Portico"

What do we mean by portico?

A porch or walkway with a roof supported by columns, often leading to the entrance of a building. noun

In architecture, a structure consisting essentially of a roof supported on at least one side by columns, sometimes detached, as a shady walk, or place of assemblage, but generally, in modern usage, a porch or an open vestibule at the entrance of a building; a colonnade. noun

A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building. noun

A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building. noun

A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area noun

A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.

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The word "portico" in example sentences

Behind the portico was a covered walkway leading to the villa itself. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The form of a portico is the arrangement of its columns; the form of a melody is the order of sounds. ❋ W. TATARKIEWICZ (1968)

The portico, which is of massive dimensions, is approached by a commanding flight of granite steps, which runs round three sides of it. ❋ Frederick Young (N/A)

Seated in state on the portico was the governor, surrounded by judges of the Supreme Court, officers, and citizens. ❋ Ethel T. Raymond (N/A)

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. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)

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. ❋ Paul Leland Haworth (N/A)

At each end of the portico is a small cabinet, with appropriate paintings: in one of them a painting of Venus, Mars, and ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In front of the portico is the driveway, and beyond are three terraces, each three hundred feet in length. ❋ Unknown (1924)

In front of the portico was a saddled horse, craning his long neck at two panting hounds stretched on the ground. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

Standing idly at the portico was a very straight, black ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

In the very center of the courtyard was a big, square platform built of stone, with a roof like a canopy supported on carved pillars similar to those that supported the portico, which is to say that each one was different, and yet all were so alike as to blend into architectural harmony -- repetition without monotony. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)

Temple of Fortune still looked down upon its columned terraces, but behind the portico was a Christian church, and where once abode the priests of the heathen sanctuary, the Bishop of Praeneste had now his dwelling. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Sitting on the portico was a tall man dressed as a Quaker. ❋ Horatio Alger (1865)

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