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half story
noun
- a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of half story1
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Example Sentences
The main building consisted of two ground-floor rooms, each with a front door and a half-story room above.
After breakfast we were conducted to the second half-story, which was one unfinished room.
It is a plain, substantial two-and-a-half story brick house of thirteen rooms, with modern conveniences, and belongs to Miss Mary.
The first story was rough stone, the half-story of shingles, that had once been painted red.
Buzz turned toward the inside wooden stairway that led to the half-story above.
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