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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 968 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STOREY (equivalents are Fr. etage, Ital. piano, Ger. Stock)  , the See also:term in See also:architecture given to the See also:floor of a See also:building, and employed generally when referring to a number of floors one above the other; thus a building may be of two, three or more storeys high . It used to be applied to a See also:series of apartments on one floor, which are now generally known as a See also:flat . " See also:Storey " or " See also:story " is from O . Fr. estoree, building, estorer, to build, equip, furnish, See also:store, from See also:Lat. staurare, only seen in See also:compound instaurare, to repair, restore, ultimately from See also:root sta, to stand .

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