'portico' in Speak, Memory (An Autobiography Revisited) | Bookmarker

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(noun) a colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical architecture and often at the entrance of a building

my livid light flitted across the six-pillared white portico at the back of my uncle’s mute, shuttered manor

—p.237 by Vladimir Nabokov

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