portego

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portego

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From Venetan pòrtego. Doublet of porch, portico, and porticus.

noun portegos

A characteristic compositional element of the Venetian civil buildings built during the years of the Republic of Venice, similar to a reception hall but having peculiar features. The arrangement of the middle windows is a transferring, as it were, of the mediæval portegos into the artistic conditions of the Renaissance.

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@misc{portego_2026,
  title = {portego},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/portego},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}