carport
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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From car + port, coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 and modeled on the French porte cochère (literally “coach entrance”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carport (plural carports)
- A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors. [from 1936]
- Franklin decided to improve his carport by walling in the sides and turning it into a garage.
Descendants[edit]
- → German: Carport
Translations[edit]
roofed structure for automobile storage
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