Crossword clues for penthouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lean-to \Lean"-to`\, n.
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(Arch.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall.
The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment.
--De Foe. A crude, usually temporary shelter comprising a lean-to roof braced against any convenient support, as a wall, a tree or a pole. The roof may extend all the way to the ground.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pendize, early 14c., from Anglo-French pentiz, a shortening of Old French apentis "attached building, appendage," from Medieval Latin appendicium, from Latin appendere "to hang" (see append). Modern spelling is from c.1530, by folk etymology influence of Middle French pente "slope," and English house (the meaning at that time was "attached building with a sloping roof or awning"). Originally a simple structure (Middle English homilies describe Jesus' birthplace in the manger as a "penthouse"); meaning "apartment or small house built on the roof of a skyscraper" first recorded 1921, from which time dates its association with luxury.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated or historical English) An outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building. 2 An apartment or suite found on an upper floor, or floors, of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious with panoramic views. Sometimes these are located just under "penthouse mechanical" floors. 3 Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court.
WordNet
n. an apartment located on the top floors of a building
Wikipedia
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Italo-American Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, temporarily evolved into hardcore. Penthouse has been owned by Penthouse Global Media Inc. since 2016.
Although Guccione was American, the magazine was founded in 1965, in the United Kingdom, but beginning in September 1969, was sold in the United States as well. At the height of his success, Guccione, who died in 2010, was considered to be one of the richest men in the United States. He was once listed in the Forbes 400 ranking of wealthiest people (1982). An April 2002 New York Times article reported Guccione as saying that Penthouse grossed $3.5 billion to $4 billion over the 30-year life of the company, with net income of almost half a billion dollars.
The Penthouse logo is a stylized key which incorporates both the Mars and Venus symbols in its design. The magazine's centerfold models are known as Penthouse Pets and customarily wear a distinctive necklace inspired by said logo.
Penthouse is the third album by American alternative rock band Luna. It was ranked the 99th best album of the 1990s by Rolling Stone.
Penthouse is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film starring Warner Baxter as a lawyer and Myrna Loy, as a call girl who helps him with a murder case. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on a novel by Arthur Somers Roche. The film was later remade as the more sanitized Society Lawyer (1939), without the risqué pre-Code dialogue.
Penthouse is an Australian television series which aired 1960 to 1961 on Sydney station ATN-7. It was a daytime series featuring Pat Firman (1922-1980) interviewing guests in a set designed to look like a penthouse. It was sponsored by Women's Day and Pix, both magazines.
The archival status of the series is not known, though a single episode is held by the National Film and Sound Archive. This episode features Rolf Harris and Janine Arnold.
Penthouse may refer to:
- Penthouse apartment, a special apartment on the top floor of a building
- Penthouse (magazine), a men's magazine
- Penthouse (film), a 1933 film starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
- The Penthouse, a 1967 film starring Suzy Kendall and Terence Morgan
- The Penthouse (2010 film), a 2010 film starring Rider Strong
- Penthouse (album), an album by Luna
- The Penthouse Club, Australian TV variety programme
- Penthouse (Australian TV series), a series which aired from 1960 to 1961
Not to be confused with Pentheus or Penthaz.
Penthouse, is a Mexican telenovela directed by Raúl Araiza Sr for Televisa in 1973. Starring Fanny Cano and Raúl Ramírez.
Usage examples of "penthouse".
If she bounced into the penthouse and blurted it out to Perrit, which she was certainly capable of, there was no way of telling how he might react.
I am to collect them from the penthouse apartment of the late Humpty Dumpty.
An ultra-condo would house five thousand or more families, ranging from proles on GAS in apartments on the lower levels, to the extremely wealthy in the rarefied heights, in swank penthouses and terrace apartments.
If Roux wanted to invade his penthouse, Garin was certain the old man could do it.
By the time that Sinker and Riff had come down the stairs from the penthouse, the space by the elevators had cleared.
She came to rest on seven-eights weight reduction, and even before the gangplanks were run out, the Kragans were dropping to the flat roof, running to stairhead penthouses and tossing grenades into them.
Las VegasCaptain Jeff Porte of the Las Vegas Police Department was having a tough time convincing the head of security for Dreamworld to allow him to enter the penthouse.
If he had inherited a million dollars twenty years ago he would have been a timeless and contented flaneur in a world of sleek penthouses, velvet smoking jackets, first editions, vintage wines, silk dressing gowns, and the conversation of connoisseurs.
EVENING, Under Secretary Lehmann summoned all those delegates and representatives sympathetic to his cause to his suite of rooms in the penthouse of the House of a Thousand Freedoms in Weimar.
When the elevator reached the penthouse level, Sartain rang the bell at the entrance.
In the penthouse living room, Alfred Sartain looked up toward the ace detective.
The fact that neither Alfred Sartain, nor Hunnefield, the secretary, had been slain in the penthouse broil, made him belittle the detectives.
Shadow leaned above Alfred Sartain that night in the penthouse studio.
It meant they could spend more time together, either in her rented cottage at Appletreewick, in Wharfedale, or at his modern executive-style penthouse apartment close to the centre of Heckley.
Romanesque aqueducts run into Art Deco penthouses run into opium dens run into Wild West saloons run into roller coasters run into small-town Carnegie libraries run into tract houses run into college lecture halls.