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Porch n.

(Arch.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. "The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple."

A portico; a covered walk. (Obs.) "Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us."

The Porch, a public portico, or great hall, in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called h poikilh stoa. (See Poicile.)

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"Porch" Quotes from Famous Books

... girls?" came Miss Morley's voice from the porch, and the waiting thirteen formed into double ...

— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... and Randy have been up to another trick right on top of this water-hose nonsense, I'll give them a tanning they won't forget in a hurry," added Tom Rover; and then he and Sam followed Dick up the back porch and ...

— The Rover Boys at Colby Hall - or The Struggles of the Young Cadets • Arthur M. Winfield

... sometimes reduced in size and represented on a single tile (Fig. 3). I give an example from Lucca Cathedral. It is on one of the porch piers, and is 191/2 inches in diameter. A writer in 1858 says that, "from the continual attrition it has received from thousands of tracing fingers, a central group of Theseus and the Minotaur has now been very nearly effaced." Other examples were, and perhaps still are, to be found in the ...

— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... Israel, and to ingratiate themselves into ecclesiastical communion, and who did stand between the court of Israel and the outer wall, were not therefore to be kept back from hearing the word; for in Solomon's porch, and so in the intermurale or court of the Gentiles, the gospel was preached, both by Christ, John x. 23, and also by the apostles, Acts iii. 11; v. 12, and that of purpose, because of the reason brought by Pineda, Of the things of Solomon, book v. chap. 19, because ...

— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie

... the lady in a voice that made his heart jump, as she came out from under the porch and the vicar helped her to get in. Then it was the turn ...

— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford

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