balcony

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  1. noun A platform that projects from the wall of a building and is surrounded by a railing, balustrade, or parapet.
  2. noun A gallery that projects over the main floor in a theater or auditorium.

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  • But the balcony was a recent and unexplained event, and the possibility of its being linked should not be ignored If you say so. —  King, Laurie R - Russell-Holmes 08 - Locked Rooms
  • The few but rather steep stairs up to the balcony were a difficulty. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • The main steel girder that supports the balcony is the longest one ever used in New York City still to this day—six stories tall if you were to lay it on end—delivered by ship to the harbor and snaked uptown on a caravan of trucks But just for Shriners Originally, detective, yes. —  Death Dance - Fairstein
  • Those on the right were occupied by the Senate, the officers of the Legion of Honor, the court of appeals, and the chiefs of the national treasury, and those on the left by the Tribunate and the Corps-Legislatif At each end of the balcony was a pavilion. —  The Private Life of Napoleon, V3
  • The woman sitting behind me in the balcony was a Dutch attorney who had just returned from two years with the U.N. in Afghanistan that day. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
 

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  1. Italian balcone, from Old Italian, scaffold, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Formerly also balcone, balconie, balcony, etc. (sometimes balcon, after F. balcon), from Italian balcone, from balco, a beam, scaffold, from Old High German balko, balcho, a scaffold, = English balk, a beam, etc.: see balk, n.
 

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