IVIV Sportello (Italian)

[John Carvill]

>
> Ie. in some offices, opening in a wall that lets employees communicate with
> the public; the service that is offered by this kind of office: teller's
> window in a bank, a post office (!). Examples include : stay in line in
> front of the teller's window; work at the sportello; sportellista: employee
> at the teller's window; close the sportelli: suspend the payments in a bank;
> automatic sportello: ATM.

Gotta be connected with 'porte-cochere', as well as Sportello, as well
as windows (literal and figurative).