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Carport

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "Franklin decided to improve his carport by walling in the sides and turning it into a garage."

  2. 2
    garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles wordnet

Etymology

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

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