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Noun
porte-cochere (plural porte-cocheres or portes-cocheres)
- Alternative form of porte cochère
1708, Mateo Aleman, chapter III, in , transl., The Life of Guzman d’Alfarache: Or, The Spanish Rogue. , volume I, London: R. Bonwick, , →OCLC, part I, book III, page 400:We had admirable Noſes to ſmell out proper Places, and your Houſes with Porte-Cocheres were ſure to have enough of our Company.
1724 April 17 (Gregorian calendar), [John Macky], “Letter I”, in A Journey through the Austrian Netherlands. , London: J. Pemberton, , and J. Hooke, , published 1725, →OCLC, page 4:oſt of the Houſes having Porte-Cocheres, and Court-yards, for the Conveniency and the Uſe of the Families.