Portico
['pɔːtɪkəʊ] or ['pɔrtɪko]
Definition
(noun.) a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area.
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Definition
(n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Covered walk.[2]. Porch, vestibule, entrance-way.
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Definition
n. (archit.) a range of columns in the front of a building: a colonnade: a porch before the entrance to a building: the Stoic philosophy:—pl. Por′ticoes Por′ticos.—adj. Por′ticoed furnished with a portico.
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Examples
- A great square house, with a heavy portico darkening the principal windows, as its master's heavy brows overshadowed his eyes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- As I passed the steps of the portico, I encountered, at the corner, a woman's face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Methought above the portico was engraved the Hic jacet of England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I wandered about till I could stand no longer, and, with difficulty, contrived to obtain a seat on the steps of a large portico-door. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There was an assemblage of persons under the portico of our house, in whose gestures I instinctively read some heavy change, some new misfortune. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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