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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 527 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLOOR (from O. Eng. See also:flor, a word See also:common to many See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a See also:field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)  , generally the See also:lower See also:horizontal See also:surface of a See also:room, but specially employed for one covered with boarding or See also:parquetry . The various levels of rooms in a See also:house are designated as " ground-See also:floor," " first-floor," " See also:mezzanine-floor," &c . The See also:principal floor is the See also:storey which contains the See also:chief apartments whether on the ground- or first-floor; in See also:Italy they are always on the latter and known as the " piano nobile." The storey below the ground-floor is called the " See also:basement-floor," even if only a little below the level of the See also:pavement outside; the storey in a roof is known as the " See also:attic-floor." The expressions one pair, two pair, &c., apply to the storeys above the first See also:flight of stairs from the ground (see also See also:CARPENTRY) .

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