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entresol

[ en-ter-sol, ahn-truh-, en-; French ahn-truh-sawl ]

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noun

, Architecture.

, plural en·tre·sols [en, -ter-solz, ahn, -tr, uh, -, en, -, ah, n, -t, r, uh, -, sawl].

a low floor between two higher floors, the lower one usually being a ground floor; mezzanine.

entresol

/ ɑ̃trəsɔl; ˌɒntrəˈsɒl /

1765–75; < French: literally, between-floor, equivalent to entre- inter- + sol floor < Latin solum ground

C18: from French, literally: between floors, from entre- inter- + sol floor, ground, from Latin solum

In the entresol below lived Camille Desmoulins and his wife in 1792.

The wedding party went back to this apartment—on the second floor above the entresol—for the dner de noces.

I hastened up stairs, sleeping in the entresol, and was at table with my uncle in three minutes.

The central part is carried up a story and an entresol higher than the wings, and, like the wings, is capped by a balustrade.

Prime feature of all the year to the little Hamiltons, on the entresol, was their Christmas tree.

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