NOUN
- canopy extending out from a building entrance to shelter those getting in and out of vehicles
- a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard
How To Use porte-cochere In A Sentence
- Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by taking refuge under the porte-cochere of No. 6. Les Miserables
- Reece & Nichols Angela Mueller no relation to the owner, an agent with Reece & Nichols Realtors, says the 5,874-square-foot house is priced well considering the location, the finishes and touches like the porte-cochere. A Touch of Tuscany in Kansas
- As he rounded the house to the porte-cochère, he came upon the carriage. The Southland
- The entrance is framed by what's left of a pair of magnificent columns that used to support a porte-cochere. Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Man to the Mansion Born
- The porte-cochere piers are composed of granite bases, banded brickwork with 1-inch radiused returns, and limestone caps.
- The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture – Sainte-Catherine, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochere of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic dream of Les Miserables
- OTHERS SAY: Angela Mueller no relation to the owner, an agent with Reece & Nichols Realtors, says the house is priced well considering the location, the finishes and touches like the porte-cochere. A Little Bit of Tuscany—in Kansas
- The three machines stood like weird night monsters at the gravelled foot of the wide stairway under the unlighted porte-cochere. Chapter II
- The three machines stood like weird night monsters at the gravelled foot of the wide stairway under the unlighted porte-cochere. Chapter II
- The machine that waited outside for him under the porte-cochère was sober black. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
