PORTICOED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porticoed mean? 

• PORTICOED (adjective)
  The adjective PORTICOED has 1 sense:

1. marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure

  Familiarity information: PORTICOED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTICOED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure

Synonyms:

amphiprostylar; amphiprostyle; amphistylar; porticoed

Similar:

apteral (having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides)

 Context examples 

Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we drove up to the porticoed front door, I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sundial with which we had such strange associations.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was an imposing porticoed house at which we stopped, and the heavily-curtained windows gave every indication of wealth upon the part of this formidable Professor.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)