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Definition of Porticoes
1. portico [n] - See also: portico
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porticoes
Literary usage of Porticoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"Whenever the representations were interrupted by storms, the spectators retired
into the porticoes behind the seats of the theatre. Ля only the porticoes ..."
2. Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1819)
"The Forum was altogether surrounded with arched porticoes, with proper ...
In porticoes, the senate and courts of justice were sometimes held, Appian. Bell. ..."
3. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"The Atrium and porticoes in the ... the atrium and porticoes, which we have been
describing ; as appears from a canon of the Council of Nantes (an. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... two theatres, eight public, and one hundred and fifty-three private, baths,
fifty-two porticoes, five granaries, eight aqueducts or reservoirs of water, ..."
5. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"... ACCOUNT OF ROME—TEMPLES—porticoes —THEATRES—CIRCUS—FORA—BATHS—AQUEDUCTS —TRIUMPHAL
ARCHES—COLUMNS—MAUSOLEUMS— BRIDGES — WALLS — GATES — HILLS — GENERAL ..."
6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"In front of these cells, and forming porticoes to them, is a double colonnade of
smaller pillars, their bases standing on a platform raised three steps ..."
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