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balcony|ˈbælkənɪ|
Forms: 7 balcone, -ona, -onia, -onie, -onee, belcony, -ey, bellcony, -ey, 7– balcony.
[a. It. balcōne (= F., Pr., Sp. balcon, Pg. balcão), formed with augmentative suffix -one from It. balco, palco, scaffold, a. OHG. balcho, palcho (= mod.G. balken, Eng. balk) a beam. Till c 1825 the pronunc. was regularly bælˈkəʊnɪ; but ˈbælkənɪ (once in Swift), ‘which,’ said Samuel Rogers, ‘makes me sick,’ is now established.]
1. A kind of platform projecting from the wall of a house or room, supported by pillars, brackets, or consoles, and enclosed by a balustrade.
1618B. Holyday Juvenal 223 It was properly a balcone, and so the building it self did jetty out. 1633G. Herbert World ii. in Temple 76 Then Pleasure came, who liking not the fashion, Began to make Balcones, Terraces. 1640Brome Sparagus Gard. iii. iv. 159 Squinting up at Windowes and Belconies. 1727Swift Tom Clinch Misc. (1735) V. 145 The Maids to the Doors and the Balconies ran, And said, lack-a-day! he's a proper young Man. 1783Cowper Gilpin 142 At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband. 1817Byron Beppo xi, And like so many Venuses of Titian's They look when leaning over the balcony, Or stepp'd from out a picture by Giorgione. 1832Tennyson Mariana in South viii, Backward the lattice-blind she flung, and lean'd upon the balcony. 1845Browning Flight of Duchess §15. 505 To breathe the fresh air from the Balcony.
fig.1650B. Discolliminium 2 First to the Title..Next to the Belcony or Preamble.
2. The similar structure at the stern of large ships.
1666Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 143 A very good ship, but with galleries quite round the sterne like a balcone. c1850Rudim. Nav. (Weale) 94 Balcony, the gallery in the stern of large ships.
3. In theatres:
†a. formerly, A stage-box.
b. now, (generally) The open part above the dress circle, between that and the ‘gallery.’ In Music Halls and other public buildings, variously applied, according to structure.
1718Rem. Rochester 106 Fairly in public he plays out his Game, Betimes bespeaks Balconies. 1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 882/2 The three tiers of boxes and the balcony of which the auditorium consists.
4. attrib., as in balcony-chamber, balcony-door, balcony-window.
1635Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons Introd. 70 Tymber for the balconia doores. 1636Laud in 4th Rep. Com. Hist. MSS. (1874) 153/2 A balconee window and a stair⁓case. 1800Coleridge Piccolomini i. vi, Why was the balcony-chamber countermanded? |