lanai

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For example, in Florida you might call one a lanai or a lanai enclosure.

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  1. noun A veranda or roofed patio.

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  • Not that it was opulent; if anything, its appearance was unpretentious: white, one-story, raised a foot or so above the ground, with a red shingle roof that sloped on all four sides and a wraparound porch, or lanai, as they're called in the Islands. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
  • Magenta plumeria twined up the support posts and cascaded over the rain gutters, and the lanai was surrounded by flowering shrubs to which I couldn't put a name The house was set well back from the road on a rise above a lawn nearly the size of a football field, a lawn screened by a thick stand of palm and papaya and bamboo and banana trees. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
  • It wasn't till I got out of the Datsun that I noticed an odd stillness I ran up the steps to the lanai, calling out to Hy and Glenna. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
  • I ran onto the lanai, watched as he set it on the pad with a feather-light touch. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
  • I went to the lanai, saw Glenna and Peter walking along the driveway. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
 

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/lɑˈnɑi/
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