Crossword clues for balconies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balcony \Bal"co*ny\ (b[a^]l"k[-o]*n[y^]; 277), n.; pl. Balconies (b[a^]l"k[-o]*n[i^]z). [It. balcone; cf. It. balco, palco, scaffold, fr. OHG. balcho, palcho, beam, G. balken. See Balk beam.]
(Arch.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
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A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Note: ``The accent has shifted from the second to the first syllable within these twenty years.''
--Smart (1836).
Wiktionary
n. (plural of balcony English)
Usage examples of "balconies".
The skyline was broken by spire and dome and minaret and tall, slender towers, while the walls supported many a balcony and in the soft light of Cluros, the farther moon, now low in the west, he saw, to his surprise and consternation, the figures of people upon the balconies.
And as he proceeded he passed many another group sitting silently upon other balconies.
Men and women looked down upon him from shadowy balconies, but spoke not.
And from balconies on either side men and women looked down in silence upon the scene below.
There were many balconies on each building and not a one that did not hold its silent party of richly trapped men and women, with here and there a child or two, but even the children maintained the uniform silence and immobility of their elders.
But yet she watched, fascinated by the martial scene, and now she noted again the groups of silent figures upon the balconies.
Slowly they retreated toward The Gate of Enemies between the rows of silent people looking down upon them from the balconies and there, within the city walls, they made their stand.
Instantly there sprang to the minds of Tara and Turan the rows of silent people upon the balconies that lined the avenues of the city, and the noble array of mounted warriors in The Hall of Chiefs, and the same explanation came to both but neither dared voice the question that was in his mind, for fear of revealing by his ignorance the fact that they were strangers in Manator and therefore impostors in the guise of pupils.
A saucer - shaped hovercam with a single antenna rushed in to broadcast his flat-faced likeness to the screens built into the display consoles of the balconies.
Cheers roared from most of the upper-tier balconies, and many of the senators in the platforms there came to their feet to applaud.
The balconies there overlooked a sprawl of spired buildings, their close-set summits rising below the plaza.
Its numerous entrances were coded, by color and other means, to individual species, many of whom required specific atmospheres and gravities, as was also the case with many of the senate rotunda balconies.
At regular intervals, especially where walkways intersected, were balconies that permitted maintenance to be performed on speaker arrays or banks of spotlights.
His mind soars around the balconies like an eagle around a mountain peak.
Like car lights flashing, the red and green bars upon the front of the balconies flash giving a rainbow like appearance as they run up the wall.