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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 351 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MEZZANINE (It. mezzano; Fr. entresol; Ger. Zwischengeschoss)

MEZZANINE (It. mezzano; Fr. entresol; Ger. Zwischengeschoss) , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, a See also:

STOREY (equivalents are Fr. etage, Ital. piano, Ger. Stock)

storey of small height introduced between two lofty storeys, or sometimes employed to allow of the introduction of two storeys equal together in height to lofty rooms on the same See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor .

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