portico
/ˈpɔɹtɪkoʊ/ nom C2En français : portique
- A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
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Dans la bibliothèque
I should judge it was of all sorts of ages and styles, starting on a half-timbered Elizabethan foundation and ending in a Victorian portico.
A thick clump of trees and shrubs rose in the centre, and masked a portion of the front; around this shrubbery two alleys, like two arms, extended right and left, and formed a carriage-drive from the iron gates to a double portico, on every step of which stood a porcelain vase, filled with flowers.
The carriage stopped at the left side of the portico, two men presented themselves at the carriage-window; the one was Ali, who, smiling with an expression of the most sincere joy, seemed amply repaid by a mere look from Monte Cristo.
Bertuccio,” said the count, springing lightly up the three steps of the portico; “and the notary?”
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