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Recent Examples of portico
Five years later, President Andrew Jackson ordered a similar portico built on the north entrance, complete with large columns.
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Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
The dilapidated wooden trim and sagging porticos were spruced up a few years ago after preservationists complained to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but the upstairs windows reveal glimpses of peeling paint, crumbling plaster, and collapsing ceilings inside.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
Past a circular motor court, a host of elegant design features present themselves, from its stone and limestone facade, where a towering arched doorway tucked into a portico embellished with Corinthian columns makes for a grand entrance to the home, to its mansard roof.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
Its columned portico and ornate moldings anchor it to Edwardian London.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
The dilapidated wooden trim and sagging porticos were spruced up a few years ago after preservationists complained to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but the upstairs windows reveal glimpses of peeling paint, crumbling plaster, and collapsing ceilings inside.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
Past a circular motor court, a host of elegant design features present themselves, from its stone and limestone facade, where a towering arched doorway tucked into a portico embellished with Corinthian columns makes for a grand entrance to the home, to its mansard roof.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
Its columned portico and ornate moldings anchor it to Edwardian London.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for portico
Noun
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With its numerous terraces and hanging gardens, the house flows organically down the slope to the scenic Pittwater waterway, creating a perfect harmony with the surrounding mature trees and natural shrubbery.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
11 Nov. 2025
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Variety first met Miñarro around 1994 at a dinner organized by Catalan Films on a Barcelona terrace overlooking the Mediterranean.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Picture yourself in a rocking chair on your wraparound porch, French doors wide open, and no clutter in sight.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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There, officers found the 32-year-old mother of four on the porch of a home.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But despite what this postcard proclaimed, there was no colonnade along it.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
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All the changes he's done to the colonnade, to the -- to the Oval Office, all the gold in the Cabinet room.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Portico.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portico. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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