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A type of log structure with a single sloping roof, used in the Adirondacks as a camping shelter.
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(architecture) A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
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A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
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(sometimes in combination) Having (a specified type or number of) alcoves
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Furnished with alleys.
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(architecture) A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
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Having one or more antechambers.
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(architecture) penthouse; pentice
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Provided or furnished with arcades.
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Furnished with arcades.
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Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
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A passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry.
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The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
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(obsolete, architecture) A dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade.
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Pronunciation spelling of balcony. [(architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.]
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Obsolete form of balcony. [(architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.]
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(rare) Of or pertaining to balconies.
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That has a balcony attached.
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Having one or more balusters.
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Archaic spelling of barbican. [A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town]
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A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
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Furnished with a belfry or belfries.
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Obsolete form of balcony. [(architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.]
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(architecture) A turret or other raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area.
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(architecture) An inner wall of a church's facade.
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(architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
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(architecture) An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.
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(architecture, Southern US) The design or form of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house
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Having an entablature.
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The distinctive overhang(s) on a Pennsylvania barn.
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An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
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A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
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(architecture) Any member like a step, such as the raised back of an altar; a gradin.
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(architecture) A hautpas.
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(architecture) A vertical pillar supporting the roof of a house, especially among Native American peoples where these posts may be decorated with carvings.
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(architecture) Synonym of balconette
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(architecture) A tower built over the junction of the nave and transept of a cruciform church.
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A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.
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A similar stand to support a lecturer's notes.
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A long, narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal found in Levantine homes, often open to the outside.
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An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
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(architecture) Having a loggia.
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A fortified tower built in biblical times.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of panyard (“pannier; bag or basket”) [(Caribbean) An enclosed area in which a steel band practises.]
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(chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
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Furnished with a pavement.
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A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
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(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
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(Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
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(archaic) Furnished with a penthouse or exterior building.
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Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
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(architecture) The floor of a building where the principal bedrooms and main reception rooms are found, very often on the first or second floor in older buildings.
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(US dialects, especially New England, dated) A veranda; a porch.
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(architecture) Furnished with piers.
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(architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
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Obsolete form of portiforium. [A breviary.]
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pedestal, particularly of a pillar or pilaster
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[T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.
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(architecture) A tall steel or concrete tower from which cables are strung.
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(architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
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(Scouting, slang) One of the outhouses with a red metal roof that have been built across Philmont Scout Ranch.
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A gallery over the rood-screen.
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(somewhat formal) The area atop a roof.
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(slang) An individual who takes selfies or videos with expansive and vertiginous urban views and cityscapes, from locations usually , but not always restricted to the public.
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(US, architecture) A house with three levels inside a two-level skin.
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A raised veranda in front of a house.
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Alternative spelling of tenfoot [(UK, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Hull) A ten-foot-wide alleyway, usually behind one's house.]
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(chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
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(Quebec English) terrace, patio
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Alternative form of terreplein [(obsolete military) The sloping earthen embankment behind a defensive wall.]
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(UK, with 'the') The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.
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Alternative form of tower defense [(video games) A style of real-time strategy video game in which the player attempts to stop enemies from crossing a map by building traps to slow them down and towers or turrets which shoot at them as they pass within range.]
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The urge or desire to build towers.
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(architecture) An outdoor structure providing shade above a seat.
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(archaic or Australia and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of veranda [A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.]
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Obsolete form of veranda. [A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.]
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A typically soft seat placed in a recess, for a window, in a wall, and filling the recess.
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