The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portico \Por"ti*co\, n.; pl. Porticoesor Porticos. [It., L. porticus. See Porch.] (Arch.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of portico English)
WordNet
n. a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
[also: porticoes (pl)]
See portico
Usage examples of "porticoes".
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.
Imagine every entertainment for mind and body—enumerate all the gymnastic games our fathers invented—repeat all the books Italy and Greece have produced—suppose places for all these games, admirers for all these works—add to this, baths of the vastest size, the most complicated construction—intersperse the whole with gardens, with theatres, with porticoes, with schools—suppose, in one word, a city of the gods, composed but of palaces and public edifices, and you may form some faint idea of the glories of the great baths of Rome.
They take their exercise in the tennis-court or the porticoes, to prepare them for the first bath.
No lights, save here and there from before the columns of a temple, or in the porticoes of the voiceless forum, broke the wan and fluctuating light of the struggling morn.
As at Paris at this day, so at that time in the cities of Italy, men lived almost wholly out of doors: the public buildings, the forum, the porticoes, the baths, the temples themselves, might be considered their real homes.
In their porticoes and gardens they courted the sun whenever it so pleased their luxurious tastes.
To add to this partial relief of the darkness, the citizens had, here and there, in the more public places, such as the porticoes of temples and the entrances to the forum, endeavored to place rows of torches.
There is a charm to me which no other spot can supply, in the porticoes hallowed still by holy and venerable shades.
I saw everywhere the Temples, porticoes, booksellers, even the high walls of an amphitheater—all that I could have expected in Rome.
When I came to the edge of it and beheld the huge square flooded with sun, flanked on all sides with porticoes or Temples or Imperial buildings, I was amazed.
I saw everywhere the Temples, porticoes, booksellers, even the high walls of an amphitheater – all that I could have expected in Rome.
The many buildings of the Palace were separated by peristyle porticoes alternating with open courtyards and gardens.
The porticoes were decorated with mosaics, the courtyards and gardens with statuary and fountains.
When his employments were over for the day, it was a strange, unearthly, vital enjoyment to him to wander softly in the shade of the temple porticoes, looking down from his great mysterious eminence upon the populous and sun-brightened city at his feet.
Multitudes scaled the walls, gained the outer porticoes, and slaughtered their Pagan defenders, but were incessantly repulsed in their turn ere they could make their advantage good.