Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having two stories, and only two, as a house.
  • In forestry, comprising on the same area two classes, which vary considerably in height, composed of trees of different species.

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Examples

  • The harbor is ringed with seafood restaurants, most of them two-storied, family-run enterprises.

    Meg Pier: Fishing Crafts of Malta's Bay Make for Eye Candy (SLIDESHOW) Meg Pier 2011

  • The harbor is ringed with seafood restaurants, most of them two-storied, family-run enterprises.

    Meg Pier: Fishing Crafts of Malta's Bay Make for Eye Candy (SLIDESHOW) Meg Pier 2011

  • Up on Adeline, near Tenth -- fine neighborhood an 'fine two-storied house.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • In 2 schoolrooms there are two-storied beds along the wall in a row.

    Work Camps 970, 975 & 976 GW 2010

  • It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the gray walls.

    Sole Music 2010

  • The building was much, much longer than it was wide; what appeared to be a small, two-storied building was an enormous, narrow, two-storied building, with the greater part of it concealed by trees and the angle of the hills among which it was nestled.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the gray walls.

    Sex Dungeon for Sale! Patrick Wensink 2010

  • It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclo - sure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.

    Sole Music 2010

  • With a pixy grin, she ushers Bill and I into their two-storied house on the edge of town.

    Gold trail to Santa María del Oro, Nayarit 2007

  • The octagonal structure was surmounted by a circular dome; the interior was divided by a circular two-storied colonnade, and was “adorned with gold and silver and lamps, railings and doors of solid bronze, columns and crucibles brought from Rome and Ravenna,” and a famous mosaic in the dome.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2009

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