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plural porches
(architecture) 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. quotations examples
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, and she insisted she would join us there.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
A portico; a covered walk. examples
The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft. quotations examples
By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.
2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo