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"Porte-cochere" Quotes from Famous Books

... the wide gateway and left his horse standing by a stone pillar outside the porte-cochere,—the beast would stand anywhere if there was a bar or post for him to look at,—and walked up the steps with the air of one who is not to ...

— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright

... hotel, with the basement for our servants. On the floor above us the owner of the house lived, a Marquise de Crequy, a widow. They tell me that the Crequy coat-of-arms is still emblazoned, after all these terrible years, on a shield above the arched porte-cochere, just as it was then, though the family is quite extinct. Madame de Crequy had only one son, Clement, who was just the same age as my Urian—you may see his portrait in the great hall—Urian's, I mean." I knew that Master Urian had been drowned at sea; and often had I looked ...

— My Lady Ludlow • Elizabeth Gaskell

... the porte-cochere was opened and shut, and the old mother heard the steps of her Ginevra in the court-yard. Bartolomeo almost instantly reappeared, carrying his daughter, ...

— Vendetta • Honore de Balzac

... if I was all hollow above the eyes, when our placid afternoon gatherin' is busted complete by a big cream-colored limousine rollin' through the porte-cochere and a new arrival breezin' in. From the way Jevons swells his chest out as he helps her shed the mink-lined motor coat, I guessed ...

— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

Words linked to "Porte-cochere" : entry, entrance, entranceway, canopy, entree, entryway