balcony
bal·cony
noun
1.
an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium
2.
a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
Origin
From Italian balcone (“balcony, floor-length window”), from Old Italian balcone (“scaffold”) from Lombardic *balk, *balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”).
Phrases
- balcony bra
- Juliet balcony
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