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n. (context Japanese architecture English) A veranda or terrace surrounding a house.
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In Japanese architecture, an is a typically wooden strip of flooring immediately before windows and storm shutters inside traditional Japanese rooms. Recently this term has also come to mean the veranda outside the room as well, which was traditionally referred to as a .
Usage examples of "engawa".
Instead, he came out on the engawa each day and sat, staring into the dust, or he drifted through the gardens with a blank expression on his face.
He signed to her to stay silent, then went without a sound off the engawa info the swath of pebbles, the border of the front garden.
They went up the steps of the engawa, through the door guarded by two officers wearing riot helmets and bullet-proof vests and holding machine pistols.
Justine, coming out on to the engawa, said, 'There's a letter for you.
Who knew how long Nicholas would have continued to sit on his engawa contemplating light and shadow, refusing to come to terms with his fate, had not Lew Croaker's letter arrived, had he not asked Justine to read it, had she not been curious about Croaker's new hand.
He went up on the engawa, tried the fusuma to the room adjacent to Mikio's study.