English

Alternative forms

• porte-cochère
• porte-cochere
• porte cochere

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 [...].

See also

• carport

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁt kɔ.ʃɛʁ/

Noun

porte cochère f ‎(plural portes cochères)

1. porte cochère