OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14788

porch

/pɔːtʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
porche • pórtico
A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch…
He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.
pórtico • soportal
A portico; a covered walk.
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