Phil in SF quoted A Wanted Man by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #17)
Hitching a ride to Virginia in a car with three strangers, Jack Reacher finds himself …
Tire smoke hung in the night air under the porte cochere, and it rolled slowly forward in a ghostly dissipating cloud, which followed the trajectory of the 180 turn, like a description, like an explanation, like proof, and then it disappeared completely, like it had never been there at all.
— A Wanted Man by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #17) (28%)
new vocabulary (surprisingly, Lee Child doesn't normally use fancy words in Reacher thrillers): porte cochère
A covered entrance large enough for vehicles to pass through, typically opening into a courtyard