porticoes in English

noun
1
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns at regular intervals, typically attached as a porch to a building.
Today one is greeted by the triangulated portico , supported on one column and aligned with the railway verandah columns.

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1. He built the grandiose Domus Aurea on the site, in front of which he created an artificial lake surrounded by pavilions, gardens and porticoes.

2. The Frankish bishop and pilgrim Arculf, in relating his pilgrimage to Jerusalem in about the year 680, described this church as "a round building open to the sky, with three porticoes entered from the south.

3. In conjunction with this trend, the mastabas of high officials started to become more elaborate, with, for example, chapels including multiple rooms, and from the mid to late Fifth Dynasty, wide entrance porticoes with columns and family tomb complexes.