Porticoes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PORTICOES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PORTICO, (Italian) a formal entrance to a classical temple, church, or other building
• a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns at regular intervals, typically attached as a porch to a building.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of porch

Words related to PORTICOES

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How to use PORTICOES in a sentence

• The first court is paved with marble, and has four porticoes, each of five light Saracenic arches, opening into the green park, which occupies the rest of the terrace.
• It consists of a ground floor, somewhat raised, with large windows, and handsome porticoes resting upon columns.
• Nothing is more comical than to see such a village, consisting of nothing but these porticoes, and neither windows, doors, nor walls.
• In this area and under these porticoes the people held their assemblies, and here courts of justice were accustomed to sit.
• At first they brought fagots and threw upon the fire, then benches from the neighboring courts and porticoes, and then any thing combustible which came to hand.
• They ran swiftly for a moment and then disappeared into dark caverns under toppling porticoes.
• A row of magnificent coffee-houses occupy the bank, and numbers of persons were taking their breakfasts in the shady porticoes.
• They formerly stood in the two porticoes, the one group representing the fight for the body of Laomedon, the other the struggle for the dead Patroclus.
• The baths of Caracalla, with their porticoes, gardens, reservoirs, had long ago become useless through the destruction of their supplying aqueducts.
• We could see figures sitting upon the white porticoes looking out over the miniature harbour.
• In his villa at Cumae were spacious porticoes and gardens, and a library with galleries and cabinets open to all comers.
• Monuments of great men, statues of Greek sculpture, colonnades, and porticoes, rich with the spoils of subject kingdoms, adorned its sides.
• Lansdowne sank down on a seat in one of the porticoes, and John, placing himself by her side, tempted her to partake of a lunch he had provided for the occasion.
• Rows of huge colonial mansions with pillared porticoes looked from their dizzy terraces across the stream to where soaring mosques and mystic domes of worship caught the sun.
• He displayed a fine fancy for architectural effects, introducing into his pictures open porticoes, arcades, balconies, and galleries.
• The market was an extensive square, surrounded by deep porticoes, and each description of merchandise had its allotted quarter.
• Within its spacious porticoes and corridors the walls glowed with the brilliant colours of innumerable frescoes and reliefs in coloured plaster.
• But Knossos, far richer, far more splendid, than either Tiryns or Mycenae, lies virtually unguarded, its spacious courts and pillared porticoes open on every side.
• With two exceptions, all Sandy society was out on the parade, the porticoes, or the northward bluff, as the sun went down.
• Afterwards I believe that mounds were added, and that aid was afforded by art, that a surface so well raised might be firm enough for sustaining temples and porticoes.
• At length they reached one of the main streets, where large houses, with pillared porticoes, gay shops, and a well-dressed crowd, proclaimed the triumph of wealth over poverty.
• From this enclosure they were led into a third, which, like the former, had its porticoes.
• The Countess von Stackelberg, wife of the Russian minister at Turin, was buying something at a shop under the Porticoes, when the shopman suddenly left her and rushed to the door.
• He completed but did not dedicate the Palace, and he finished the Porticoes about it.
• Outside the building and in the porticoes surrounding it the sellers of books of the races and of cushions are plying their trade along with venders of confectionery and perfumes.
• No lights, save here and there from before the columns of a temple, or in the porticoes of the voiceless forum, broke the wan and fluctuating light of the struggling morn.
• In their porticoes and gardens they courted the sun whenever it so pleased their luxurious tastes.
• There is a charm to me which no other spot can supply, in the porticoes hallowed still by holy and venerable shades.

Similar words containing PORTICOE without suffix s

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