auvent.
awning, canopy (over entrance)
Meaning & usage
awning, canopy (over entrance)
carport
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French auvans, from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *andebanno (“eaves, portico”) (compare Occitan ambans, Catalan envà), compound of ande (“intensive prefix”) (compare Welsh an-) + banno (“horn”) (compare Welsh ban), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *an- + *bandā.
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