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BASEMENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 464 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASEMENT  , the

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term applied to the lowest storey of any
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building placed wholly or partly below the level of the ground . It is incorrectly applied to the ground storey of any building, even when, as for instance in the case of Somerset House,
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London, the ground floor is of plain or rusticated
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masonry, and the upper storey which it supports is divided up and decorated with columns or pilasters .

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