veranda

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  1. noun A porch or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. Also called regionally gallery.

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  • And seated on the broad rail of the veranda were Melicent and Grégoire, patting Juba and singing a loud accompaniment to the breakdown Was this the Grégoire who had only yesterday wept such bitter tears on his aunt’s bosom Thérèse turning away from the scene, the doubt assailed her whether it were after all worth while to strive against the sorrows of life that can be so readily put aside V One Afternoon Whatever may have been Torpedo’s characteristics in days gone by, at this advanced period in his history he possessed none so striking as a stoical inaptitude for being moved. —  At Fault
  • When she stepped out on the veranda, the look of the trees, the breath of the light wind across her cheek, the odor of dawn, all the indefinable personality of that early hour was like an enchantment about her She ran out to her favorite arbor and plucked one of the heavy clusters of purple grapes, finding their cool acidity an exquisite surprise. —  The Squirrel-Cage
  • "However, I'll agree that this veranda is good enough for me on a July day The tinkling of ice cut short the conversation. —  Walter and the Wireless
  • But"--Marjorie stopped short in the middle of the veranda--"what do you suppose became of Mignon CHAPTER XXVI LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES Marjorie touched the button of the electric bell for admittance, but her finger had scarcely left it when the door was opened by her mother, who regarded her daughter with mingled amazement and alarm Why, Marjorie!" —  Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman
  • But when we were smoking in the veranda, and my friend mentioned, as an aside, that I was "Red Spinner," the visitor leaped to his feet, came at me with a double grip, and shouted a Scotch salmon-fisher's welcome, turning to my host and furiously demanding, "Why the dickens didn't you tell me so at first On another Bush visit an officer in the Mounted Police showed me amongst his curiosities a copy of Waterside Sketches half devoured by dingoes, and found with the scraps scattered around the skeleton of a poor wayfarer left at the foot of a gum-tree. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
 

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  1. Hindi varaṇḍā, probably from Portuguese varanda (perhaps ultimately from Vulgar Latin *barra, barrier, bar).

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  1. Also verandah, formerly also varanda, voranda, feranda, feerandah; cf. French véranda = Swedish Danish veranda (from English); from Hind, varandā, Bengali bārāndā, Malay baranda, late Sanskrit varanda, a veranda, portico; supposed by some to be derived from Persian barāmadah, a porch, terrace, balcony (from barāmadan, ascend, from bar, up, + āmadan, come, arrive), but perhaps from the similar OPg. and Old Spanish terms (which are found too early to be derived from the Hindustani word), namely OPg. varanda (1498), Old Spanish varanda (1505), a balcony, railing (Yule), “railes to leane the brest on” (Percival; so Minsheu), from vara, a rod, from Latin vara, a rod, stick: see rare.
 

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