carport

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From car + port, coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 and modeled on the French porte cochère (literally “coach entrance”).

Still unhappy but looking a little less like a figure out of the Great Depression, the cabbie gunned his machine away, leaving Malone standing in the carport surrounded by suitcases and bags of all sizes and weights. — Occasion ... for Disaster, Randall Garrett
Mrs. Randle stated that on the morning of November 22, while her brother was eating breakfast, she looked out the breakfast-room window and saw Oswald cross the street and walk toward the driveway where her brother parked his car near the carport. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

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