The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mezzanine \Mez"za*nine\, n. [F. mezzanine, It. mezzanino, fr. mezzano middle, fr. mezzo middle, half. See Mezzo.]
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(Arch.)
Same as Entresol.
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.
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Also
mezzanine floor. (Theat.) A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.
The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony.
WordNet
n. intermediate floor just above the ground floor [syn: mezzanine]
Usage examples of "mezzanine floor".
Pierce lunged into the elevator, pressed the button for the mezzanine floor, and turned to study his unconscious traveling companions.
Jeremy follows him up a metal staircase to a mezzanine floor over the lobby.
There was a Pinkerton man sitting at a card table near the staircase on the mezzanine floor.
With the stage boxed it was more likely that I would find what I was seeking on the mezzanine floor.
With a curt nod the commissionaire stopped the old grille-fronted elevator at the mezzanine floor, and the three got out.
At the top, a mezzanine floor looked out across Scott's control hub.
Hastily the woman shoved her way out at the mezzanine floor and Casey knew she had won a great victory.
They climbed the wide marble stairs to the mezzanine floor and crossed an echoing landing that smelled of Sterno.
As before, Kathleen showed me up to his office on the mezzanine floor.
Looking back, above the reception area he could see a mezzanine floor, separated from the studio only by its height and a meagre wooden banister.
Jacques deVille plodded up the marble stairs of the Mandarin Hotel to the mezzanine floor, packed with people having late tea.
When the elevator hissed open on the mezzanine floor she peered around the edge before stepping out, then shrank back into the interior until the young man at the end of the corridor had rounded the corner and disappeared.
She led him through an arched portico into one of the towers, up to a mezzanine floor.
We moved into the lobby and up an escalator to the mezzanine floor.