Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A balcony or gallery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A balcony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
balcony .
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Examples
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- "a shelf that the French unblushingly call a balcon, or balcony"
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I took this photo of her on the "balcon" of her flat on Saftlevenstraat, in the centre of Rotterdam, in August of 1966, when I was 16 and she was 70.
Oma Belinda 2009
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[...] 11 Abril 2010 Hermosas creaciones del arquitecto Robert Cannon!, me encanaria tener una en mi balcon y ver como el musgo va a ir creciendo poco a poco.
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The exact sentence is: ‘Il y a du monde au balcon!’ and is still used, though less and less.
tea 2007
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References: le balcon (m) = balcony; la cloche (f) = bell; le midi (m) = midday, noon; Riviera of Flowers (in Italian: "Riviera dei Fiori," so-named for the flower industry in this part of Italy); tout simplement = quite simply
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References: le balcon (m) = balcony; la cloche (f) = bell; le midi (m) = midday, noon; Riviera of Flowers (in Italian: "Riviera dei Fiori," so-named for the flower industry in this part of Italy); tout simplement = quite simply
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Tandis quà ce balcon, seul, je veille et je pleure,
La Nuit d'Octobre 1920
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Il y a la un long balcon d'ou l'on voit le fort courant du Rhin qui passe sous l'ancien pont.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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And that other stanza, "The Châtelaine and the Page;" and that other, "The Doves;" and that other, "Romeo and Juliet," and the exquisite cadence of the line ending "_balcon_."
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Sa Sainteté fut sur un balcon pour voir son entrée.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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