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  • noun Plural form of portico.

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Examples

  • Most of the churches of the Meseta lack steeples, which is the reason why church bells were placed in porticos formed by huge wooden trunks covered in tejamanil.

    The Meseta Purepecha 2008

  • Most of the churches of the Meseta lack steeples, which is the reason why church bells were placed in porticos formed by huge wooden trunks covered in tejamanil.

    The Meseta Purepecha 2008

  • "They planted groves and walks of Platanes," where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air.

    Walking 1969

  • "They planted groves and walks of Platanes," where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air.

    Walking 1862

  • According to Pausanias, Agaptos, a Grecian architect, invented the porticos around the square attached to the Greek stadii, or race courses of the Gymnasiums, which gained him so much reputation, that they were called the porticos of Agaptos, and were adopted in every stadium.

    Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834

  • In Jerusalem there is, by the Sheep Gate, a pool with five porticos, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • In Jerusalem there is, by the Sheep Gate, a pool with five porticos, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MBack 2009

  • In Jerusalem there is, by the Sheep Gate, a pool with five porticos, which is called Bethesda in Hebrew.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Reliable, dewy, like visual porticos to the other world with their floral organs exposed.

    the human prairies walk Jerry Ratch 2011

  • Visual porticos, with their floral organs on display.

    sirens Jerry Ratch 2011

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