rez-de-chaussée

The rez-de-chaussee was quickly in a blaze, the smoke poured in dense black volumes from the wounds in the front and roof.

A villa, with green shutters, was occupied by their sharpshooters, who fired from the half-open windows of the rez-de-chaussee.

A simple hard-pounded clay floor served the humble householder for his rez-de-chaussee.

He found the "domicile" that very day: a tawdrily furnished rez-de-chaussee, obviously destined to far different uses.