portico

How To Use portico In A Sentence

• To their millionaire owners and portico-loving architects, they are temples of mock baroque and neo-Tudor excess that serve as worthy successors to the great country houses of the past.
• The pyramidal building, which has the form of a cubical building with a pyramidal roof and entrance porticoes, differs from the iconographic tradition of the Meta Romuli.
• The main hall takes up most of the central span and the space under the east cantilever, while the one to the west projects out over the street to provide an entrance portico and foyer.
• The three lowest horizontal bands of the lower portico's elegantly rusticated facade frame ten light and ventilation shafts for the basement, a flat keystone resting above each of the nearly square openings.
• By the basin, under a small portico cut in the solid wall, sat a priest, old, bearded, wrinkled, cowled-never being more perfectly eremitish. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
• From time immemorial, in hot and rainy lands, a hypaethral court, either round or square, surrounded by a covered portico, was used for the double purpose of church and mart, — a place where God and Mammon were worshipped turn by turn. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• So far, the central courtyard – featuring in the middle a round monument or tholos – the western row of shops, the southern portico and the southern half of the eastern row of shops have been excavated. The Macellum: Aims 2009 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds
• Wander our surviving early 18th-century streets and look at the finely wrought brick window arches, the mellow brick and precise pointing or the well-cut stone, and the erudite door surrounds, the miniature porticoes leading into the sacred environs of the home. British architecture: Georgian
• Here on January 7, 1861, Alabama voted to secede from the Union, and on February 18, on the steps of the portico, Jefferson Davis took his oath of office as President of the Confederate States. L'ombra mostrarsi
• a columned portico