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mez⋅za⋅nine

  [mez-uh-neen, mez-uh-neen]
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–noun
1. the lowest balcony or forward part of such a balcony in a theater.
2. a low story between two other stories of greater height in a building, esp. when the low story and the one beneath it form part of one composition; an entresol.
Origin:
1705–15; < F < It mezzanino, equiv. to mezzan(o) middle (< L mediānus median ) + -ino dim. suffix
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mez·za·nine   (měz'ə-nēn', měz'ə-nēn')   
n.  

  1. A partial story between two main stories of a building.

  2. The lowest balcony in a theater or the first few rows of that balcony.


[French, from Italian mezzanino, diminutive of mezzano, middle, from Latin mediānus, in the middle; see median.]
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mezzanine 
1711, "a low story between two tall ones in a building," from Fr., from It. mezzanino, from mezzano "middle," from L. medianus "of the middle," from medius. Sense of "lowest balcony in a theater" first recorded 1927.
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