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单词 balcony
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balconyn.

Brit. /ˈbalkəni/, /ˈbalkn̩i/, U.S. /ˈbælkəni/
Forms: 1600s balcone, balcona, balconia, balconie, balconee, belcony, belconey, bellcony, bellconey, 1600s– balcony.
Etymology: < Italian balcōne (= French balcon, Provençal balcon, Spanish balcon, Portuguese balcão), formed with augmentative suffix -one from Italian balco, palco, scaffold, < Old High German balcho, palcho (= modern German balken, English balk) a beam. Till c1825 the pronunciation was regularly bælˈkəʊnɪ; but ˈbælkənɪ (once in Swift), ‘which,’ said Samuel Rogers, ‘makes me sick,’ is now established.
1. A kind of platform projecting from the wall of a house or room, supported by pillars, brackets, or consoles, and enclosed by a balustrade.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > balcony
gallery1509
balcony1618
balcon1635
pergolaa1641
gazebo1843
mashrabiyya1850
basket-balcony1866
balconette1876
sun deck1876
1618 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Sat. 223 It was properly a balcone, and so the building it self did jetty out.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 76 Then Pleasure came, who liking not the fashion, Began to make Balcones, Terraces.
1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iii. iv. 159 Squinting up at Windowes and Belconies.
1735 J. Swift Clever Tom Clinch in Wks. II. 298 The Maids to the Doors and the Balconies ran, And said, lack-a-day! he's a proper young Man.
1783 W. Cowper John Gilpin 142 At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband.
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xi. 6 And like so many Venuses of Titian's..They look when leaning over the balcony, Or stepping from out a picture by Giorgione.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Mariana in South in Poems (new ed.) 23 Backward the latticeblind she flung, And leaned upon the balcony.
1845 R. Browning Flight of Duchess xv, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 16/1 To breathe the fresh air from the balcony.
figurative.1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 2 First to the Title..Next to the Belcony or Preamble.
2. The similar structure at the stern of large ships.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > balcony or gallery at stern or quarter
gallery1627
balcony1666
quarter-gallery1740
stern-gallery1842
stern-walk1867
1666 S. Pepys Diary 2 Nov. (1972) VII. 352 A very good ship, but with galleries quite round the Sterne to walk in, as a Balcone.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 94 Balcony, the gallery in the stern of large ships.
3. In theatres: (a) (formerly) a stage-box; (b) (now generally) the open part above the dress circle, between that and the ‘gallery.’ In Music Halls and other public buildings, variously applied, according to structure.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > balcony or circle
upper circle1586
balcony1718
dress circle1812
mezzanine1927
terrace1961
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > box or compartment
pew1558
lord's room1592
box1609
private boxa1640
side-box1676
balcony1718
lodge1730
green box1732
stage box1740
loge1768
opera box1789
dress box1795
property box1809
omnibus1840
omnibus box1842
baignoire1873
1718 Rem. Rochester 106 Fairly in public he plays out his Game, Betimes bespeaks Balconies.
1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 882/2 The three tiers of boxes and the balcony of which the auditorium consists.

Compounds

attributive, as in balcony-chamber, balcony-door, balcony-window.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window
loop1393
shot-windowc1405
gable window1428
batement light1445
church window1458
shot1513
casement1538
dream-hole1559
luket1564
draw window1567
loop-window1574
loophole1591
tower-windowc1593
thorough lights1600
squinch1602
turret window1603
slit1607
close-shuts1615
gutter window1620
street lighta1625
balcony-window1635
clere-story window1679
slip1730
air-loop1758
Venetian1766
Venetian window1775
sidelight1779
lancet window1781
French casement1804
double window1819
couplet1844
spire-light1846
lancet1848
tower-light1848
triplet1849
bar-window1857
pair-light1868
nook window1878
coupled windows1881
three-light1908–9
north-light1919
storm window1933
borrowed light1934
Thermopane1941
storms1952
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door
hall-doorc1275
falling doorc1300
stable doorc1330
vice-door1354
hecka1400
lodge-doorc1400
street door1465
gate-doora1500
portal1516
backdoor1530
portal door1532
side door1535
by-door1542
outer door1548
postern door1551
house door1565
fore-door1581
way-door1597
leaf door1600
folding door1611
clap-door1625
balcony-door1635
out-door1646
anteportc1660
screen door1668
frontish-door1703
posticum1704
side entrance1724
sash-door1726
Venetian door1731
oak1780
jib-door1800
trellis?c1800
sporting door1824
ledge-door1825
through door1827
bivalves1832
swing-door1833
tradesmen's entrance1838
ledged door1851
tradesmen's door?1851
fire door1876
storm door1878
shoji1880
fire door1889
Dutch door1890
patio door1900
stable door1900
ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901
suicide door1925
louvre door1953
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others
hell1310
summer hall1388
summer parloura1425
paradise1485
fire room1591
garden room1619
ease-room1629
portcullis1631
divan1678
but?1700
sluttery1711
rotunda1737
glass casea1777
dungeon1782
hall of mirrors1789
balcony-chamber1800
showroom1820
mirror room1858
vomitorium1923
mosquito room1925
refuge room1937
quiet room1938
Florida room1968
roomset1980
wet room1982
1635 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons Introd. 70 Tymber for the balconia doores.
1636 Laud in 4th Rep. Com. Hist. MSS. (1874) 153/2 A balconee window and a stair~case.
1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. vi. 29 Why was the balcony-chamber countermanded?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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