noun, masculine/o.vɑ̃/plural: auvents
awning, canopy (over entrance); carport
“Charles donna de grands coups de poing contre les auvents: Un agent de police vint à passer; alors il eut peur et s'en alla.”
Synonyms: banne, marquise
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.