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“The driver pulled the taxi into the porte cochere of the high-rise and remarked on its swankiness.”
“The fourteen-feet wide piazza on the first floor, extending across the front and around the tower, with its stone porte cochere and entrance arch is most inviting.”
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Words That Mean Things
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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uberWENSCH's Words
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Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine H...
New words I discovered while reading this book.
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Noelle Knight "Thank you," I said politely when we pulled under the porte cochere of the hotel. -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas Dec 10, 2010
chained_bear "There was a good chance that the coach would be detained—was sure to be slow, bogged down on the miry roads.
Speaking of coaches—his heart gave a sickly leap at the sight of a battered-looking carriage standing in the porte cochere, which he thought belonged to the doctor."
—Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone (New York: Delacorte Press, 2009), 244 Mar 17, 2010
seanahan A covered entryway for people getting out of vehicles. Jan 4, 2008
bilby "This driveway was gravelled, and loose chippings of stone rattled against the Lada's undercarriage as it drew up under a porte cochere."
- 'The Colour Of Blood', Brian Moore. Jan 3, 2008