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The color or the look of your awning is a personal touch that can show the fun side of you.

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  1. noun A rooflike structure, often made of canvas or plastic, that serves as a shelter, as over a storefront, window, door, or deck.

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  • Beneath the awning was a small grocery store; a row of strangled chickens dangled behind the plate-glass storefront, next to a cardboard sign covered in Chinese writing. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • Beneath the awning was a yellow wooden door with no knob, just a covered steel slot at eye level. —  UglyAmericans
  • Install an awning, and you can reduce the amount of heat that comes through that window by up to 77 percent. —  azcentral.com | news
  • Built in the late 1700s, makeshift wood pillars keep the sagging wood porch from falling, boards under the awning are peeling back, and logs are beginning to rot. —  tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A
  • A retractable awning is a cost-effective way to improve the appearance of your home, commercial building or trailer in a way that's both graceful and striking. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. First recorded in the 17th century, in nautical use; of undetermined origin, but apparently (with suffix -ing) *awn, prob. a nautical reduction of French auvent, “a penthouse of cloth before a shop-window” (Cotgrave), Old French auvant, Middle Latin auvanna (also spelled auventus, apparently in simulation of Latin ventus, wind), of unknown origin.
 

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