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porte-cochère

Variant of porte-cochere

or

noun

  1. a large entrance gateway into a courtyard
  2. a kind of porch roof projecting over a driveway at an entrance, as of a house

Origin: Fr porte, a gate (see port) + cochère, coach, fem. adj. < coche: see coach

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