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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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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.
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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 Sarah Tilton 2011
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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 2010
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Well, the hospital looks like a 4* hotel, complete with a porte-cochere with uniformed attendants who whisked me away in a wheelchair through a grand lobby and atrium to the urgent care area.
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In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a porte-cochere.
Les Miserables 2008
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A fountain sits beside the porte-cochere, or carriage porch, leading to a home with leaded-glass windows, plaster walls and 12-foot ceilings.
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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 2008
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Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by taking refuge under the porte-cochere of No. 6.
Les Miserables 2008
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When the porte-cochere closed behind the carriage of the two notaries, she turned to her future son-inlaw, impatient to solve her doubts.
A Marriage Contract 2007
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