Meanings of grand portico in английском

It has a grand portico, upheld by four rows of massive columns, with capitals in the form of papyrus flowers.

This last is flat-roofed, and far lower than the grand portico which hid it from the eyes of the crowd in the courtyard.

It was quite dark when they rolled through the lofty gates, up the broad, tree-shaded drive, to the grand portico entrance of the house.

Fancy yourselves transported to the grand portico; for, in this your place of assembling, the monuments of all great actions are erected in full view.

"I met Smelfungus," he wrote later on, "in the grand portico of the Pantheon-hewas just coming out of it.