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  • Then I thought of porte, which is French for door, obviously.

    ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ 2007

  • It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung tenaciously to ancient words, still called the porte cavaliere and the porte pietonne.

    Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

  • We have a structure that's commonly referred to as a porte-cochere in architectural terms

    BiggerPockets Forums durangoyaya 2010

  • We have a structure that's commonly referred to as a porte-cochere in architectural terms

    Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2009

  • It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung tenaciously to ancient words, still called the porte cavaliere and the porte pietonne. 16 The Bernardines – Benedictines of the Rue Petit – Picpus had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly belonged to their community.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • My favourite is "porte", which ties Dion to Adscam and the previous scandal-ridden government.

    Archive 2007-02-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007

  • It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung tenaciously to ancient words, still called the porte cavaliere and the porte pietonne. [

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Sans franchir sa porte, on peut connaître le monde.

    franc - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Sans franchir sa porte, on peut connaître le monde.

    franc - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • At Cafe de la Tour I found a seat close to the porte-fenêtre* for a nice view of the village square on market day.

    WWII soldiers remembrance 2009

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