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Examples
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The three machines stood like weird night monsters at the gravelled foot of the wide stairway under the unlighted porte-cochere.
Chapter II 2010
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This thing is the drifting king of your kid's preschool porte cochere.
Cadillac's Insane, Unnecessary, Awesome Wagon Dan Neil 2011
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His stucco bungalow was already deep in shadow inside the pecan trees and slash pines that surrounded it, his pickup truck parked under the porte cochere.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I had just come home from work and had parked my pickup under the porte cochere.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I walked to the edge of the backyard so I could see through the porte cochere into the front.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Above the porte cochere, three open windows, disturbed snow on the windowsills.
The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010
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I walked to the edge of the backyard so I could see through the porte cochere into the front.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Then I saw a clapboard shack in the gloom, banana fronds bending over the tin roof, a bright red Coca-Cola machine sweating under the porte cochere, a deck built on pilings over the water, a small barbecue pit smoking greasily in the breeze.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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His stucco bungalow was already deep in shadow inside the pecan trees and slash pines that surrounded it, his pickup truck parked under the porte cochere.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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His speedboat was parked on its trailer under a porte cochere, the trailer hitched to a pale blue paint-skinned pickup truck.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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