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sto⋅rey

  [stawr-ee, stohr-ee]
–noun, plural -reys. Chiefly British.
story 2 .

sto⋅ry

2  [stawr-ee, stohr-ee]
–noun, plural -ries.
1. a complete horizontal section of a building, having one continuous or practically continuous floor.
2. the set of rooms on the same floor or level of a building.
3. any major horizontal architectural division, as of a façade or the wall of a nave.
4. a layer.
Also, especially British, storey.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME storie < AL historia picture decorating a building, a part of the building so decorated, hence floor, story < L historia history
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sto·rey   (stôr'ē, stōr'ē)   
n.   Chiefly British
Variant of story2.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

story  (2)
"floor of a building," c.1400, from Anglo-L. historia "floor of a building" (c.1200), also "picture," from L. historia (see history). Perhaps so called because the fronts of buildings in the Middle Ages often were decorated with rows of painted windows.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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