Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a portico or porticos.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnished with a portico.

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  • adjective of a building That includes a portico.

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  • adjective marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure

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Examples

  • On a trip back to Rome one evening last month from Bolzano near the Austrian border, I booked my night-train ticket and had just enough time to set off through porticoed streets to eat roast duck, apple sauce and red cabbage at a trattoria, surrounded by German-speaking Italians laughing and knocking back tall glasses of beer.

    Last train to Sicily 2012

  • It was likely ringed by porticoed walkways, shops behind wrought-iron lattices, small inns and al fresco cafes shaded by orange trees.

    Bob Schulman: Gold, Booze And Tourists: Mazatlan's Plazuela Machado Bob Schulman 2011

  • As long as Ida Mae lived in the house, he had always approached that porticoed facade with dread, never knowing what was in store, whether she would greet him with a smile and a bowl of soup or silent, tight-lipped rage or a screaming, dish-throwing tantrum.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • As long as Ida Mae lived in the house, he had always approached that porticoed facade with dread, never knowing what was in store, whether she would greet him with a smile and a bowl of soup or silent, tight-lipped rage or a screaming, dish-throwing tantrum.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • There were other cars parked in front of the porticoed front door, and Martin said that they were the last to arrive.

    NEVER WAVE GOODBYE DOUG MAGEE 2010

  • Like the racially mixed Tigers, Central High has become in many respects a model of integration, a big-city school with academic achievements as impressive as its grand, porticoed architecture.

    Trouble On and Off the Gridiron 2010

  • We arrange to meet at the Church Hill theatre; this large, porticoed theatre on Edinburgh's genteel Morningside Road is the AHSTF's main performance space.

    What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh? 2010

  • As long as Ida Mae lived in the house, he had always approached that porticoed facade with dread, never knowing what was in store, whether she would greet him with a smile and a bowl of soup or silent, tight-lipped rage or a screaming, dish-throwing tantrum.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • In this elegant, porticoed mansion of a restaurant, we admired the view and the meticulously authentic French traditional food.

    Dinner Deep in Walleye Territory 2009

  • "Or," she writes, "it could just be that women with more education and more money relate on a subconscious level to the young and handsome Barack and Michelle Obama, with their white-porticoed mansion in one of the cooler Chicago neighbourhoods and her Jimmy Choo shoes."

    Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

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