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Webster 1913 Edition


Porte-cochere


Porte′-coˊchère′

,
Noun.
[F. See
Port
a gate, and
Coach
.]
(Arch.)
A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.

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porte-cochere

porte cochère

English

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Noun

porte cochère (plural porte cochères)

  1. An open-walled roof over a driveway next to the entrance of a building, to shield embarking and disembarking vehicle passengers from the weather.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
      But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, [] . By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 42:
      I stopped the Packard under the porte-cochère and emptied my pockets out on the seat.
    • 2014, Stephen Fry, More Fool Me, Michael Joseph 2014, p. 223:
      The front desk had already made a great fuss of Johnny and Mary, lining up to greet him at the famous porte-cochère as soon as his splendid old Rolls-Royce had arrived [...].

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔʁt kɔ.ʃɛʁ/

Noun

porte cochère f (plural portes cochères)

  1. porte cochère