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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



... down, they came out on a mezzanine around a wide central hall on the street level, the floor forty feet below them and the ceiling thirty feet above. Their lights picked out object after object below—a huge group of sculptured figures in the ...
— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper

... conducted on past-tours as a cover-up for the illegal activities which he pursued in between trips. In the present instance, however, the hall went quite well with the Yore's lumillusioned exterior, possessing, with its gallery-like mezzanine, its long snack table, and its imitation flagstone flooring, an early sixth-century aspect of its own—an aspect marred only slightly by the "anachronistic" telewindows inset at regular intervals ...
— A Knyght Ther Was • Robert F. Young

... the mezzanine, a story with an independent entrance which had been rented to a druggist, the lordly splendor of the facade developed. Three rows of windows on a level with the arch of the portal, divided by double columns, had frames of black marble delicately carved. Stone thistles climbed over the columns ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... over the announcement by Benjamin H. Serkowich of the Peoria Art League that a canvas painted by a woman in her dream with the hand of the immortal and long since departed Whistler guiding her brush, is on display at a local theater mezzanine floor which gave space to the ...
— The Secret of Dreams • Yacki Raizizun

... you on the upper level later," he said, and got on a moving staircase that soared slowly upward, past level after level, toward the information desk located on the topmost mezzanine. ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... mounted on thick cardboard, whose upper surface had a slight convex curve. There were plans of the basement of the projected town hall, of the ground floor, of the building at a height of twelve feet from the ground, of the mezzanine floor, of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth floors; these plans were coloured. Further, in plain black and white, there were a plan of the roof (with tower), a longitudinal section on the central axis, two other sections, three elevations, and a perspective ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett



Words linked to "Mezzanine" :   loge, mezzanine floor, story, level, entresol



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