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Mezzanine   Listen
noun
Mezzanine  n.  
1.
(Arch.)
(a)
Same as Entresol.
(b)
A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
2.
A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
3.
The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony. mezzanine floor. (Theat.) A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.






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"Mezzanine" Quotes from Famous Books



... store, however, philosophy was laid aside. A kind of intoxication possessed him. Never before had old Mr. Beagle (watching delightedly from the mezzanine balcony) seen such a floorwalker. Gissing moved to and fro exulting in the great tide of shopping. He knew all the best customers by name and had learned their peculiarities. If a shower came up and Mrs. ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley

... well out of the ground, and in this way a rather unusually high elevation for such a house was obtained. The plan is very compactly arranged, with an ingenious approach to the well-centered hall and staircase, over which, by a mezzanine contrivance, a good store place is secured. The drawing-room has a belvedere bay, reached from the garden by an external stair, under which is a covered garden seat. A balcony overlooking the garden leads also from the drawing-room, and a billiard room is arranged on the basement ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various



Words linked to "Mezzanine" :   floor, entresol, balcony, first balcony, story, storey



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