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awning

[aw-ning]

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noun

a rooflike shelter of canvas or other material extending over a doorway, from the top of a window, over a deck, etc., in order to provide protection, as from the sun.

a shelter.

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Origin:
1615–25; origin uncertain

Related forms

awn·inged, adjective

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Awning makers generally give on-site estimates at no charge, bringing fabric samples.

And one wall of the rehearsal room lifts open to create an indoor-outdoor space, with the wall serving as its awning.

Standing half in the sun and half under an awning gets me a sunburn that is only half as painful but looks twice as stupid.

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Awning makers generally give on-site estimates at no charge, bringing fabric samples.

And one wall of the rehearsal room lifts open to create an indoor-outdoor space, with the wall serving as its awning.

Standing half in the sun and half under an awning gets me a sunburn that is only half as painful but looks twice as stupid.

He joins a group of volunteers-fishermen, shopkeepers, and taxi drivers-gathered around tables under the restaurant awning.

He had traded his upper lip for a little awning of a mustache.

The top floor opens to a balcony shaded by a red-and-yellow awning suspended on metal brackets.

There's a hole in the roof and a bushel of ginger drying under an awning.

Since full grown trees are not always located in a convenient position, some sort of awning or canopy can be erected.

Place an awning three feet above the head of the candidate.

The window openings have a interior gutter to direct rain to the awning.

At the foot of the hill the car left the rails and ran into an awning.

It's an inspired white-linen restaurant inside a pearl-gray house with a green awning.

The only sound is the wind snapping a torn yellow awning near its base.

Dempsey's burial service under a green awning was brief and emotional.

Heib was sitting with dozens of other villagers under an awning in the forecourt of the mosque a day after the blaze.

Open up the master bedroom's awning windows or slide open the ground-floor.

There is no awning above the entrance and no advertising or neon.

The apartment has a washer and dryer, and the terrace has an electric awning that provides plenty of shade.

The plastic skeletons hanging from a nearby awning will be stored in a reliquary no grander than a cardboard box.

He now smokes under the awning several feet from the entrance.

Backyard is landscaped and features an awning covering.

They sit on the ground patiently under the shade of an awning in front of the mosque.

The building is bright red and sports lighted white globes and a red awning.

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World English Dictionary

awning (ˈɔːnɪŋ)

—n
	a roof of canvas or other material supported by a frame to provide protection from the weather, esp one placed over a doorway or part of a deck of a ship

[C17: of uncertain origin]

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Word Origin & History

awning

1624, origin uncertain (first recorded use is by Capt. John Smith), perhaps from M.Fr. auvans pl. of auvent "a sloping roof." Nautical term until sense of "cover for windows or porch" emerged 1852.

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