Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The floor just above the ground floor of a building; a mezzanine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low story between two others of greater height, especially one so treated architecturally that from the exterior it appears to form a single story with the one below it; a low apartment or apartments, usually placed above the ground floor. Also entersole, mezzanine story.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mezzanine ; anintermediate floor in a building, typically resembling abalcony . Most often used to refer to the floor immediately above the ground floor and below a higher floor.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun intermediate floor just above the ground floor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(I should have prefaced this anecdote by saying, for the benefit of those readers who have never been in Paris, that the entresol is a low story just over the shops, and that the Rue de Rivoli is one of the noisiest streets in the city.) -- "But Feuillet has leased the third and fourth floors: why don't you receive up there?" responded the visitor.
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A splendid double staircase leads to the ground floor as high as an 'entresol'.
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In my confusion I imagined, a moment before the assailants entered the Queen's apartments, that my sister was not among the group of women collected there; and I went up into an 'entresol', where I supposed she had taken refuge, to induce her to come down, fancying it safer that we should not be separated.
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Above this is an "entresol" of tiny circular windows alternating with medallions of crowns held up by genii.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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A splendid double staircase leads to the ground floor as high as an 'entresol'.
Serge Panine — Complete Georges Ohnet 1883
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Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning.
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Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning.
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She made a formal declaration that her Majesty, with the assistance of Madame Campan, had packed up all her jewelry some time before the departure; that she was certain of it, as she had found the diamonds, and the cotton which served to wrap them, scattered upon the sofa in the Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning.
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'entresol', where I supposed she had taken refuge, to induce her to come down, fancying it safer that we should not be separated.
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'entresol', where I supposed she had taken refuge, to induce her to come down, fancying it safer that we should not be separated.
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