Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A roofed, open-sided passageway connecting two structures, such as a house and a garage.
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- noun A structure with a roof and open sides that connects two buildings.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The breezeway was the same room where she had often spoken to me on the telephone while watching TV or painting her nails or drying her hair.
First Love & Other Obsessions Gary Percesepe 2011
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The breezeway was the same room where she had often spoken to me on the telephone while watching TV or painting her nails or drying her hair.
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A breezeway was the only air conditioning they had back then.
Priceless Nicole Richie 2010
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Or rather, onto a little open-sided but roofed passage called by some, I believe, by that awful word breezeway.
The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008
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I haven’t read the Twelve Days of my absence from CBG yet - the lounge room here has Air Con but the internet Nook in the breezeway has been an oven without the breezes, hence my disinterest in faffing … last I heard she said something about camping.
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Frequent image posting is a very rare phenomenon here (that is, if someone said "posts lots of images", I'd have thought, until now, "breezeway", whereas when you say "telling people to shut up", I think ... oh, so many people.
How Now Brownpau 2008
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Pictured here is the breezeway between the master bedroom and the living spaces.
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The building is designed with plenty of dual function: exposed rafters provide additional storage, a dining-room cabinet doubles as an outdoor tool shed and the library windows roll open to convert the interior into a breezeway.
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Close to the road, each house they passed had a square yard, one tree, a breezeway.
Visiting 2010
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All the children were milling about on the front steps and breezeway.
The Grass of Hermosa Bend Warren Smith 2011
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