entresol
English
Etymology
Noun
entresol (plural entresols)
- A mezzanine; an intermediate floor in a building, typically resembling a balcony. Most often used to refer to the floor immediately above the ground floor and below a higher floor.
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:
- This idea, however, was luckily all before him again from the moment he crossed the threshold of the little entresol of the Quartier Marbœuf into which she had gathered, as she said, picking them up in a thousand flights and funny little passionate pounces, the makings of a final nest.
Translations
an intermediate floor in a building
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French
Noun
entresol m (plural entresols)
Further reading
- “entresol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.