: a colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical architecture and often at the entrance of a building
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This curved portico, four stories high, spans a remarkable 120 feet without a single supporting column.—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 Crickets chirp in the grass beside the driveway, which winds up a bluff, past two towering fir trees and a columned portico, to the side of the building.—Blaine Davis, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025 From Jackson's inauguration until President Jimmy Carter's in 1977, the ceremony largely took place outdoors in front of the Capitol's east portico, according to the Library of Congress.—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2025 Under the miles of porticos, past the opera house, Ava led me to La Taberna del Re Vallot, a trattoria that is decorated with hundreds of cats—ceramic cats, kitty clocks, pet portraits.—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for portico
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