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Intermediate floor just above the ground floor
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mezzanine
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, "a low story between two tall ones in a building," from French mezzanine (17c.), from Italian mezzanino , from mezzano "middle," from Latin medianus "of the middle," from medius (see medial (adj.)). Sense of "lowest balcony in a theater" first recorded ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context engineering English) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function. n. 1 A balcony in an auditorium. 2 A secondary floor, in between the main floors of a building. 3 Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mezzanine is the third studio album by English trip hop group Massive Attack , released on 20 April 1998 by Virgin Records . It was the first album to be produced by Neil Davidge , along with the group. The entire album was provided on their website for ...
Usage examples of mezzanine.
Finishing his second call, Cranston entered an elevator and rode up to the mezzanine floor.
On the balcony of the mezzanine, Cranston waited, ready to play his part when the two strugglers came into sight on the floor below.
Just below the mezzanine wounded crooks had rallied, ready to charge out into the lobby.
He was simply a blur of blackness as he vaulted the mezzanine rail and came plunging down, full tilt, into the clustered men below!
They circled the space, and by leaning out from his rough mezzanine slab, Daeman could see more of these cross-niches below him, indented as if burned into the blue-ice.
From the mezzanine, a wrought-iron staircase spiraled down to the main floor of the room and up through the ceiling to what presumably was a second story.
Harman noticed that the walls around the base of the dome up to a height of forty feet or so, where the first mezzanine began, were completely covered with carved designs of flowers, vines, elaborate and impossible plants, all brightened by the presence of inlaid jewels.
Concourse and strolled about for a time, window shopping on the commercial mezzanine above the main floor.
Pierce lunged into the elevator, pressed the button for the mezzanine floor, and turned to study his unconscious traveling companions.
Then there were gunshots coming from the other side of the terminal and from the overhanging mezzanine, and the Oriental gunmen were hit.
All right, please turn your mind to the shots that came from the mezzanine and blew away the Japanese hitmen.
Mel walked onto the executive mezzanine which ran the length of the main terminal building.
Few among the eighty thousand or so air travelers who thronged the terminal daily ever glanced up at the executive mezzanine, and fewer still were aware of Mel tonight, high above them, looking down.
He went out from his office onto the executive mezzanine, looking down on the continued bustling activity of the main terminal concourse.
Still amused, Mel turned away from the mezzanine rail and headed for the staff elevator.