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en⋅tre⋅sol

[en-ter-sol, ahn-truh-, en-; Fr. ahn-truh-sawl]
–noun, plural -sols [-solz; Fr. -sawl] . Architecture.
a low floor between two higher floors, the lower one usually being a ground floor; mezzanine.

Origin:
1765–75; < F: lit., between-floor, equiv. to entre- inter- + sol floor < L solum ground
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en·tre·sol   (ěn'tər-sŏl', ěn'trə-, ŏn-trə-sôl')   
n.  The floor just above the ground floor of a building; a mezzanine.

[French : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + sol, floor (from Latin solum).]
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