carport
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Carport_2011-by-RaBoe.jpg/220px-Carport_2011-by-RaBoe.jpg)
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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