PORCH

See HOUSE and TEMPLE.

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PORCH. → See TEMPLE

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porch. Porch, n. an entrance with a roof, a portico

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Porch (?), n. [[F. porche, L. porticus, fr. porta a gate, entrance, or passage. See Port a gate, and cf. Portico.]] 1. 1. (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. Dryden. 2. 2. A portico; a covered walk.
Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us. Shak. 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 ἡ ποικίλη στοά. [See Poicile.]