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‖ porte-cochère|pɔrtkɔʃɛr|
Also 7–8 (anglicized) port-cocher.
[F., f. porte port n.3 + cochère, fem. adj. f. coche coach n.]
A gateway for carriages, leading into a court-yard; a carriage-entrance.
1698W. King tr. Sorbière's Journ. Lond. 3 Divers of the Citizens Houses have Port-cochers [mispr. -ezs] to drive in a Coach, or a cart either, and Consequently have Courts within. 1699M. Lister Journ. Paris 8 All the Houses of Persons of Distinction are built with Port-cochers, that is, wide Gates to drive in a Coach. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) II. 170 Kensington cannot be named without mentioning the King's Palace there:..there are two great Wings built..and a large Port-cocher at the Entrance, with a Postern. 1804Edin. Rev. Apr. 95 The darkness of their court-yards and portes cocheres. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxiv, Their carriage stood in the porte-cochère of the hotel. 1882Century Mag. XXIV. 843/1 The porte-cochères..afford glimpses of..court-yards. |