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Porte-cochere   Listen
Porte-cochere

noun
1.
A carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard.
2.
Canopy extending out from a building entrance to shelter those getting in and out of vehicles.





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"Porte-cochere" Quotes from Famous Books



... pulled up under the porte-cochere Emery Phelps, the banker, greeted us. Perhaps it was my imagination, but it seemed to me that there was a repressed animosity in his manner, as though he resented the intrusion of Kennedy and myself, yet felt powerless to prevent it. In contrast to his manner was ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... a considerable part," he said as we drew up under a bone-white porte-cochere where a small-bodied Jap stood respectfully impassive and waiting to open ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... portal, gate; postern; porch, portico. Associated words: lintel, jamb, sill, threshold, stile, panel, rail, mullion, porte-cochere, reveal, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... Basseinaya Street, when I heard for the first time in my life the whistling of bullets and the peculiar drumming of the machine guns. I felt weak in the knees and around the waist and had to stand in a porte-cochere for a while. It was only for a few moments, and I felt ashamed of this disgusting feeling of fear. A crowd of cooks, or maids, passed near me shouting and screaming for help; they had disgustingly lost their self-control. I reached home in a hurry and found Maroossia pale and frightened. ...
— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe


Words linked to "Porte-cochere" :   entranceway, entryway, entrance, canopy, entree, entry


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