sottoporticon.
/ˌsɒtəʊˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/ Architecture.
The covered passage running behind an arcade or colonnade and frequently beneath the projecting first floor of a building.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] > outdoors
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1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sotto portico,..an arcade; a street passageway under the overhanging story of a building.
1927 C. Mackenzie Vestal Fire i. vi. 95 It was a large villa... One reached it by a sotto portici [sic].
1981 B. Healey Last Ferry ii. 30 The sottoportico at the bottom end of St. Mark's Square.
1983 E. Webster Venetian Spy-Glass viii. 75 I followed Renzo..through the maze of calliselle and sottoporteghi.
1984 ‘J. Gash’ Gondola Scam xiii. 105 A sottoportego, a little alley going under a building.
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