| 单词 | portico |
| 释义 | portico (once / 1561 pages) n If your host suggests that you take your iced tea out to the portico, you can follow him onto the porch. A portico is a front porch with columns. If you've ever seen pictures of the United States Capitol building or the Pantheon in Rome, you've seen a portico. While a porch that is held up with grand columns is a portico, a longer covered area or walkway with columns is called a colonnade. The root of portico, is simply the Latin word for "porch," porticus. WORD FAMILYportico: porticoes, porticos USAGE EXAMPLESWinston Churchill shivered as he stood in the South Portico of the White House at twilight on Christmas Eve in 1941. Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016) Is the replica White House for sale on Georgetown Pike in McLean — complete with curved portico and towering columns — not quite right? Washington Post(Oct 10, 2016) Macedonia’s main government complex, recently recast as a copy-and-paste White House, complete with square portico and tympanum, begged for recognition. New York Times(Oct 05, 2016) n a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area Hypo|Hyper narthex portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church porch a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance |
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