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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

... neglected. In front of George lay a number of large plans, 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 ...

— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

... had gone we took off our things (Roberta let me have her little spare room on the mezzanine floor and she gave Penelope her own big bedroom with the old French furniture), then a Russian singer, a tall blond, Margaret G——, came in from the next apartment and we talked for a long time. Pen and Bobby smoke cigarettes and drank ...

— Possessed • Cleveland Moffett

... feet, and there were lurking shadows among the trees. To the right, in an old orchard, a goldhammer sang a faint reluctant song, and he too must have been old. The lime-trees soon came to an end and I came to a white house with a terrace and a mezzanine, and suddenly a vista opened upon a farmyard with a pond and a bathing-shed, and a row of green willows, with a village beyond, and above it stood a tall, slender belfry, on which glowed a cross catching the light ...

— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff