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portico

[pawr-ti-koh, pohr-] / ˈpɔr tɪˌkoʊ, ˈpoʊr- /


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In December, the board decided to rename the institution and new lettering bearing Trump's full name was affixed to the centre's front portico the next day.

From BBC May 29, 2026

Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?

From Slate Apr. 28, 2026

A portico with muscular Doric columns doubles as a terrace, as if Von Stuck had built himself a temple rather than a mere home.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

Trump finally appeared on the portico of the Blue Room after 7 p.m. on Wednesday to welcome new interns to what the White House described as a “soiree” on the South Lawn.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2025

I carried trays along the portico of brown metal posts.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Its White City—a temporary demonstration of the grandeur of classical architecture, with Greek and Roman-style colonnades and porticoes arranged around a lake—had been designed by America’s greatest architects.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Some of them even spent a night or two sleeping on tiled floors among its trickling fountains and delicate arched porticoes.

From New York Times Aug. 30, 2022

At a meeting in China on Wednesday, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, the U.N. culture agency, inscribed the porticoes on the prestigious list.

From Seattle Times Jul. 28, 2021

Back in Trinidad, we park on a quiet street of red-tiled rooftops and shuttered porticoes, where we’ll sleep later.

From The Guardian Nov. 24, 2018

Everywhere there were statues of lions—on top of pedestals, over doorways, on the porticoes of the largest buildings.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

The entire city is filled with beautiful archways and pillars and covered porticos.

From Seattle Times Nov. 18, 2022

At Bard, the weather drove us inside and out, from his office to benches and tables and porticos.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 26, 2022

Get a taste of royal living with a stay in the Taj Jai Mahal Palace, with stately columned porticos and 18 acres of gardens.

From New York Times Nov. 29, 2018

Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces—a city of mansions—all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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