FLOOR (from O. Eng.

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• FLOR, ROGER DI

flor, a word

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• COMMON

common to many

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic

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• LANGUAGES

languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a

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• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)  , generally the lower horizontal surface of a room, but specially employed for one covered with boarding or parquetry . The various levels of rooms in a house are designated as " ground-floor," " first-floor," " mezzanine-floor," &c . The principal floor is the storey which contains the chief apartments whether on the ground- or first-floor; in Italy they are always on the latter and known as the " piano nobile." The storey below the ground-floor is called the " basement-floor," even if only a little below the level of the pavement outside; the storey in a roof is known as the " attic-floor." The expressions one pair, two pair, &c., apply to the storeys above the first flight of stairs from the ground (see also CARPENTRY) .