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noun

Mezzanine n.

(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.

A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.

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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Etymology of 'Mezzanine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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