Crossword clues for portico
portico
- Porch with columns
- Pillared entranceway
- Capitol feature
- White House feature
- Roofed porch
- Fancy entrance
- Pantheon feature
- Jefferson Memorial feature
- White House entrance
- Column-supported roof
- Prominent Monticello feature
- Covered entrance to a home
- Covered building entrance
- Colonnade in front of a building
- Classical entranceway
- Feature of many court buildings
- Attachment in classical architecture
- Grand entrance
- Classical Greek temple feature
- Colonnaded entrance
- A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
- Colonnaded entryway
- Covered ambulatory
- Covered porch
- Covered entrance with columns
- Covered entrance I start to construct in Iberian city
- Covered entrance to a building
- Left religious painting unfinished in covered entrance
- Architectural feature I see in European city
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colonnade \Col`on*nade"\, n. [F. colonnade, It. colonnata, fr. colonna column. See Colonel.] (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Note: When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Italian portico, from Latin porticus "colonnade, arcade, covered walk, porch," from porta "gate" (see port (n.1)). Especially of the Painted Porch in Athens.
Wiktionary
n. A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
WordNet
n. a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
[also: porticoes (pl)]
Wikipedia
A portico (from Italian) is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in Ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures, including most Western cultures.
Some noteworthy examples of porticos are the East Portico of the United States Capitol, the portico adorning the Pantheon in Rome and the portico of University College London. Porticos are sometimes topped with pediments.
Bologna, Italy, is famous for its porticos. In total, there are over of arcades, some 38 in the city center. The longest portico in the world, about , extends from the edge of the city to Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. In Turin, Italy, porticos stretch for .
Palladio was a pioneer of using temple-fronts for secular buildings. In the UK, the temple-front applied to The Vyne, Hampshire was the first portico applied to an English country house.
Portico (formerly Portico Quartet) are a band from London. The group is composed of Jack Wyllie (soprano and tenor saxophone), Duncan Bellamy (drums), and Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass). Keir Vine ( Hang and percussion) had replaced Nick Mulvey, who left in early 2011 to pursue his career as a singer-songwriter. Vine then left the group on 1 August 2014.
After nearly two years of playing mainly small gigs and busking regularly outside the National Theatre in London, they signed to Babel Label in 2007. Their first album, Knee-Deep in the North Sea, was released on 5 November 2007.
The name portico comes from when one of their gigs was rained off in Italy, and they ended up playing under a portico.
Their third, eponymously titled album was released on 30 January 2012.
In September 2014, after Vine left the group, the band changed their name to Portico, dropping the word 'Quartet' from their name, and completely changed their musical style. It was also announced that the band were signing to Ninja Tune.
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building with a roof structure over a walkway. Buildings named after their porticos include:
- Santa Maria in Campitelli, in Rome, called Santa Maria in Portico
- Porticus Aemilia, in Rome, is an ancient structure near the river Tiber
- Porticus Octaviae, also in Rome, is an ancient structure near the old Roman Jewish Ghetto
Portico may also refer to:
- Hyundai Portico, a crossover sport utility vehicle
- Portico, an imprint of Anova Books
- Portico (Miami), a high-rise building in Florida, USA
- Portico Library, a subscription library in Manchester, England
- Portico Systems, a US computer company
- The Portico, a Baltimore literary journal
- Portico (band), a jazz group from London, formerly named Portico Quartet
- Portico (service), a community-supported digital archive by Ithaka Harbors
Usage examples of "portico".
They had arrived by rented coach, bidden to wait under the portico, and identified themselves as Inspector Edgars and three constables from Scotland Yard.
He assigned Michelangelo a drawing desk on the portico between seventeen-year-old Torrigiani and twenty-nine-year old Andrea Sansovino, who had been apprenticed to Antonio Pollaiuolo and whose commissioned work was to be seen in Santo Spirito.
The brooklet was still there and the old pillared portico, where the stone showed from under the crumbling stucco and the roses had pushed their way through the stone paving and entwined the columns.
Bernard had noticed a large house of some pretensions to architectural display, namely, unnecessarily projecting eaves, giving it a mushroomy aspect, wooden mouldings at various available points, and a grandiose arched portico.
Much of the temple was ruined, but the severe broad front was whole as well as a large hall behind it, a hall from which a thin remote chant could be heard: across this front stretched what for want of the proper term Stephen thought of as a portico, a narthex, and in this narthex a monk in a worn old saffron robe was sitting by a brazier.
As they approached it up the now-well-tended drive, both noticed that the ivy had been stripped off, the bricks repointed, and that a smart new portico had been built over the entrance.
And Ralph sat down on the trellised portico, stretching out his elegant rosetted shoes, and laughing.
An unhappy combination which wouldat least from the front aspect of the Sacra Viabe vastly improved by the addition of a proper and imposing temple portico and pediment.
Two consuls and the wife of a chocolate manufacturer put in a petition for a fire alarm, which was immediately granted, although the fire department was right behind the Orphanage and its training tower overlooked all the silver firs, promising the ivy on white house fronts and all the many cornices and porticoes that knew Schinkel from hearsay to dispatch two fire brigades, within twenty-seven seconds.
Pleased by this image, Silvester had stomped out through the portico and lurched down the single step on to turf and soil.
As he entered the tablinum, he heard a voice from the porticoes of the peristyle beyond, which, musical as it was, sounded displeasingly on his ear--it was the voice of the young and beautiful Glaucus, and for the first time an involuntary thrill of jealousy shot through the breast of the Egyptian.
As he looked through the telephoto lens of the viewfinder, he moved the camera from the portico, sweeping across the facade of the cathedral, then panning across the crowd of tourists and pilgrims, as if capturing the entire scene on video, an amateur cinematographer.
This bath, in fact, had been dedicated by Antoninus Caracalla, who bathed in it himself and opened it to the public, but the portico was left unbuilt, and this was added after his death by this spurious Antoninus, though actually completed by Alexander.
Moments later, it stopped gently in a curving driveway before a gracefully understated jade-stone portico: the sprawling Lordglen House of State.
The charming little grey-painted cottage with its portico over its narrow front stoop held by square-hewed though slender pillars, the intricate spool-turned overhang from the portico roof, the bronze pull-bell in the graceful door, the multi-paned front windows with their rounded, arched tops, heavily lace-curtained and from behind which curtains Vernice was probably even now peeping, wondering what on earth the arrival of a black man at 242 Flower Street and in a surrey!