Gates

[Araucaria]

What is the normal French word for the kind of gate you put across your driveway, or into a field?

My rather unsatisfactory dictionary suggests "porte" for the former, or maybe "barrière" for the latter. But I can't quite accept the doorishness of a five-bar gate, or the apparently temporary nature of a "barrière" either.

[Clair]

Un portail

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[NormanH]

Portail? I am not sure..

Edit sorry simultaneous post

[allanb]

My money would be on portail.  We have a gate that rolls across the driveway (i.e. it doesn't swing on hinges) and that was the word used by the man who fitted it.

[Christine Animal]

I would say portail for a private driveway or garden entrance

and barrière for entrance to a field.   http://www.vds-phl.fr/article-les-barrieres-du-cotentin-2-46451636.html

 

[idun]

I was thinking portail as I opened this. And it's nice when Clair confirms what I am thinking[:D]

[NormanH]

Nice photos Christine

[Araucaria]

My Colllins/Robert dictionary glossed "portail" as being "large, metallic", so I think probably the word I am after actually is barrière after all, since it is the wooden type I wished to describe - a traditional rather than a modern field gate.

This kind of thing:

And thanks Christine for the link to those atmospheric pictures.

[Christine Animal]

Yes, that's more of a barrière.  A portail also seems to usually be in two halves.

Hope it's a while before it becomes as atmospheric as the photos!   [:D]

 

P.S. The smaller door often at the side of a portail is called a portillon.

 

[Araucaria]

[quote user="Christine Animal"]

Yes, that's more of a barrière.  A portail also seems to usually be in two halves.

Hope it's a while before it becomes as atmospheric as the photos!   [:D]

 

P.S. The smaller door often at the side of a portail is called a portillon.

 

[/quote]

Regrettably that one isn't mine: it's a stock picture from a UK supplier. I shall ask to see if I can get something similar made here, and then I'll probably go and buy it from the UK supplier and bring it back on my trailer .... as I expect the local cost to be on the heavy side.

It's a pity I can't find a supplier of cattle grids - much less aesthetically intrusive, and they would do the job much better.

[Christine Animal]

Cattle grids exist here.  Not sure what they're called though.

There are companies making those gates if you search under barrière pré bois.  Here's one, Claustra 3 metres, 83 euros if I've understood correctly.  That doesn't seem bad.

http://www.equivans.fr/cat_name/clotures-barrieres-bois.aspx

 

[Araucaria]

Clair (and others)

You're right, too: portail seems to be fine for wooden gates.

This picture describes the gate shown as a portail:

and for anyone who's interested it's from this website.

The model in question is the Don Quichotte. Perhaps that's because you could imagine it's like a medieval knight holding a drooping lance?

[Théière]

Viagra?

[Cendrillon]

Araucaria / Christine

Re.

 cattle grid - I think it is called a barriere canadienne

I came across this term in a guide book when out walking.

[Christine Animal]

Oh thank you Cendrillon.  [:)]  You're dead right, I've just had a look.

 

[Angie]

Came across your post by accident - we have been looking for such a website for ages, thanks so much!!!