: a colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical architecture and often at the entrance of a building
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Seven doors — four steel-and-glass sliders and three solid, handcrafted wood portals — open onto the courtyard’s circular portico, creating a seamless blend of indoor and outdoor spaces, reminiscent of the early California Spanish missions.—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 14 June 2025 Falke is partial to their selection of French portico clocks: 19th-century timepieces with classical columns and gilded pendulums.—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 16 June 2025 With its wrap-around, colonnaded portico, surely this Gilded Age structure left its latter-day beholders awestruck at first sight.—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2025 The main alteration was the restoration of the central portico to its original proportions, removing a canopy in the entrance hall that had been added in the 1990s, a move which allows for more light.—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for portico
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