What (who) is mezzanine - definition

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT

Mezzanine floor; Entresol; Mezzanine level; Mezanine; Mezzanines; Mezzanine (architecture); Mezzanine room

mezzanine

(mezzanines)

A mezzanine is a small floor which is built between two main floors of a building.

...the dining room on the mezzanine.

N-COUNT

The mezzanine is the lowest balcony in a theatre, or the front rows in the lowest balcony. (AM; in BRIT, usually use dress circle
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N-COUNT: oft the N

Mezzanine

·noun ·same·as Entresol.

II. Mezzanine ·add. ·noun A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.

III. Mezzanine ·add. ·noun A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.

IV. Mezzanine ·noun A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.

mezzanine

['m?z?ni:n, 'm?ts-]

¦ noun

1. a low storey between two others, typically between the ground and first floors.

2. N. Amer. the lowest balcony of a theatre or the front rows of the balcony.

¦ adjective Finance referring to unsecured, higher-yielding loans that are subordinate to bank loans and secured loans but rank above equity.

Origin

C18: from Fr., from Ital. mezzanino, dimin. of mezzano 'middle', from L. medianus 'median'.

Wikipedia

Mezzanine

A mezzanine (; or in Italian, a mezzanino) is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls. However, the term is often used loosely for the floor above the ground floor, especially where a very high-ceilinged original ground floor has been split horizontally into two floors.

Mezzanines may serve a wide variety of functions. Industrial mezzanines, such as those used in warehouses, may be temporary or semi-permanent structures.

In Royal Italian architecture, mezzanino also means a chamber created by partitioning that does not go up all the way to the arch vaulting or ceiling; these were historically common in Italy and France, for example in the palaces for the nobility at the Quirinal Palace.

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