Crossword-Solution: PORTICO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portico | n. | A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PORTICO | anagram | PROOTIC |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PORTICO (5)
Its front is ornamented with a portico of half-a-dozen wooden pillars, supporting a balcony, beneath which a flight of wide granite steps descends towards the street.
The Minister only took final leave of beautiful Lady Blakeney on the top of the stairs; below, on the landing, a veritable army of gallant gentlemen were waiting to bid “Good-bye” to the queen of beauty and fashion, whilst outside, under the massive portico, Sir Percy’s magnificent bays were impatiently pawing the ground.
And what could not come to pass in twenty—in forty—years? Often, of pleasant afternoons, the two would drink their black coffee, seated upon the stone-flagged portico whose canopy was the blue sky of Louisiana.
She possessed herself of a very obvious volume—one of the series of the _Arabian Nights_—and she brought it out into the portico and sat down with it in her lap.
The house presented an imposing chocolate-colored expanse, relieved by facings and window cornices of florid sculpture, and by a couple of dusty rose trees which clambered over the balconies and the portico.
Quotes with PORTICO (3)
On hands and knees the figure comes pacing along beside the wall that flanks the patio, lithe, sinuous, knife in mouth perpendicular to its course. In moonlight and out of it, as each successive archway of the portico circles high above it, comes down to join its support, and is gone again to the rear. The moon is a caress on supple skin. The moon of Anahuac understands, the moon is in league, the moon will not betray. ("The Moon of Montezuma")
At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure invective, a vulgar battle of vulgar jokes, double-entendres, the most vicious calumnies and offensive constructions. It goes without saying, that in this inglorious battle, the only winners were those who had nothing to lose as far as their good name was concerned. My friends an…
As she gracefully descended down portico, the white gloved hand of the lady of the estate met the white-glove worn by a Negro footman, as a vast expanse of hoop skirt filled the carriage doorway. It was a skirt of fine white lawn with ruffles embroidered with little pink and blue flowers complete with green stems. The white trash girl looked on in amazement, involuntarily wincing at the thought of the long hours plantation slave seamstresses had devoted to decorating a dress …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1987–2024).