एक भवन या एक इमारत के प्रवेश द्वार जिसमें एक कवर और अक्सर स्तंभित क्षेत्र होता है

porticoes's Usage Examples:

The principal square is surrounded with pillared porticoes, and has a fountain in the centre; and along the river bank there runs a fine promenade, planted with poplar trees and adorned with statues.

This is of great breadth, and had a Horologion half-way down and fine porticoes and shops.

(2) The Hellenistic Agora, a huge square, surrounded by porticoes, lying S.W.

Below the terrace was a precinct, surrounded by walls and flanked with porticoes and other buildings; it is over loo yds.

Recent excavations have revealed porticoes, a gateway and other buildings, and also the remains of several colossal early statues, the best preserved of which is now in the museum at Athens.

It joined with Naples to erect one of the finest porticoes of Constantinople at the time of its construction.

Most of these porticoes were of Roman period - the finest of them were erected, as we learn from inscriptions, by a lady named Epigone: one, which faced south, had a double colonnade, and was called the Bai-rn: close to it was a large exedra.

The agora is of unsymmetrical form; its sides are bordered by porticoes, interrupted by streets, like the primitive agora of Elis as described by Pausanias, and unlike the regular agoras of Ionic type.

In the centre was the Agora of Hippodamus; on the western margin of the Cantharus harbour extended the emporium, or Digma, the centre of commercial activity, flanked by a series of porticoes; at its northern end, near the entrance to the inner harbour, was another Agora, on the site of the modern market-place, and near it the µa?cp l OTOa, the corn depot of the state.

In front of the porticoes are rows of pedestals, which once bore statues and other dedications.

porticoes's Meaning':

a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area