porch
/pɔɹt͡ʃ/ noun B2- 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. · He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
Plural porches
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In the fading light I could see that the centre was a heavy block of building from which a porch projected.
A tall man had stepped from the shadow of the porch to open the door of the wagonette.
Marilla worked fiercely and scrubbed the porch floor and the dairy shelves when she could find nothing else to do.
Neither the shelves nor the porch needed it--but Marilla did.
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