awning

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Awnings (roof-like covers) over windows on a building.
Shop awnings over the pavement were popular in New Zealand
Canopies at Kettering station in England were described as awnings

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1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn +‎ -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (sloping roof), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bannā (eaves) (compare Occitan ambans (parapet)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā (horn; peak) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

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awning (plural awnings)

  1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
    • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
      At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.
    • 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Kettering”, in RAIL, number 972, page 56:
      But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - [] .
  2. (nautical) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

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