porticoed
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8.8
- adjective
- /ˈpɔrtɪkoʊd/
- Even so, the desire for porticoed administrative structures emerged there, but at a slightly later point in time and in markedly different political circumstances; for this reason, they are not included here.
- white porticoed
Examples
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Looking out the window toward the street, the two took in the porticoed veranda and wrought-iron scrollwork by which the builder conveyed an air of Southern gentility.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now the despised clubhouse, a white-washed porticoed northern dream of a southern slave-holder's mansion, looked almost benign.
Fiction book (1997) -
Its massive porticoed entry doors, framed in brightest white, double as a portal to another time.
Blog text (12) -
The Milanese installed their own podesta in new porticoed quarters, which allowed them to project the impression of good governance while controlling the subject city.
Academic text (2015) -
These palaces accommodated meetings of communal councils in a large assembly hall (a salone) raised up over an entirely open porticoed ground floor.
Academic text (2015) -
With the power of the guilds at its height in Novara, the city began to replace the wall around the Broletto square with porticoed buildings (Fig. 6).
Academic text (2015) -
Their patrons were noble consuls, but historians who preferred to see a popular role in their commission sometimes portray these porticoed structures in broad, oversimplified strokes as welcoming and democratic.
Academic text (2015) -
The city-states of the communal period in Italy (ca. 1080-1380) produced the first republican governing bodies in Europe since the fall of the Roman Republic; they also fashioned public squares studded with an unprecedented array of porticoed architecture.
Academic text (2015) -
Compared with the multiple tableaux visible simultaneously across porticoed squares in the north, Todi's loggias offered interested onlookers selected foci and sight lines optimized for frontal viewing.
Academic text (2015) -
The porticoed building had columns that enhanced its grandeur and style.
Synonyms
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4.6
Having tall pillars, often at the front of a building
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5.3
Having tall straight posts that support or decorate a building
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Porticoed comes from portico, from an old Latin word meaning 'door' or 'entrance', and is related to portal. A portico is a covered porch with columns, so a porticoed building is one that has that columned entrance.