mezzaninen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɛzəniːn/,

/ˈmɛtsəniːn/, U.S.

/ˈˌmɛznˈˌin/,

/ˈˌmɛzənˈˌin/

Inflections: Plural mezzanines.

Forms: 1700s mezanine, 1700s mezanini (plural), 1700s mezaninis (plural), 1700s mezzanini (plural), 1700s mezzanino's (plural), 1700s mezzonini (plural), 1700s– mezzanine, 1800s mezzaine (irregular), 1800s mezzonine, 1900s– mezzanin.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French mezzanine; Italian mezzanino.

Etymology: < French mezzanine (1676 as mezanine ; 1694 in sense A. 2, 1691 in fenêtre mezzanine ) and its etymon Italian mezzanino (1550) < mezzano intermediary (1312; use as noun of mezzano (adjective) middle, middle-sized, intermediate (14th cent.) < classical Latin mediānus median adj.²) + -ino , diminutive suffix (compare -ine suffix⁴). N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (me·zănīn) /ˈmɛzəniːn/.

A. n.

†a. A platform or flooring laid over a floor to bring its height up to some required level. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > platform to bring floor to required level

mezzanine1715

1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xxii. 39 If any little Room or Closet should happen to be lower than the rest, what is wanting must be supplied by a Mezanine, or false-floor-Cieling.

b. A low storey between two others in a building, usually between the ground and first floors; (also) a room, apartment, etc., on this storey. Cf. entresol n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > upper floors

first floor1445

plancher1523

first storey1686

piano nobile1715

mezzaninec1720

entresol1726

attic storey1738

upstairs1781

attic1818

second floor1821

third floor1908

upper1968

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > small window

fenestrellec1420

windolet1592

mezzaninec1720

fenestella1848

peeper1899

c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture II. xiv. 23 On the closets are mezanini.

c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture II. iii. 5 The closets..have mezzanino's or half stories above them.

1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Entresole, sometimes call'd Mezanine, is a kind of little Story, contrived occasionally at the top of the first Story, for the conveniency of a Ward-robe, &c.

1726 G. Leoni Alcuni Disegni di Edificj: Some Designs for Buildings 1/2 The smaller stairs..ascend to the Mezzanines.

1741 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) III. 80 The princess di Forano,..took us into the mezzanini, where the family live.

1754 R. Pococke Trav. (1889) II. 140 To the saloon and hall there are as mezaninis above the windows.

1786 T. Jefferson Let. 26 Jan. in Papers (1954) IX. 222 Over 4. of these smaller rooms of the 2d floor are 4. Mezzanines or Entresoles serving as offices for the clerks.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 438 In this case, the upper story is termed a mezzanine or inter~sole.

1876 B. Champneys in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 237 A large cupboard for stowage on a mezzanine.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 666 Water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window.

1956 O. Welles Mr. Arkadin ii. iii. 110 She'd fixed herself up in Paris, living with a girl-friend who had a mezzanine in the Rue Victor Massé.

1974 News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 24 Apr. 1– b/1 Registration was held in the Mezzanine of the Wade Hampton Hotel.

1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities (1988) v. 100 On the mezzanine of the sixth floor of the Bronx County Building..was a wide entryway.

†c. Theatre. A floor beneath the stage, from which the traps are worked. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > parts below stage

mazarine1829

mezzanine1886

1829 [see sense B. 1].

1847 A. Smith Nat. Hist. Ballet Girl iii. 32 The mezzonine [sic] floor..or ‘mazarine’, as it is called in the theatre..is..inhabited solely by those active spirits..who send fairies and demons up and down the traps.

1886 Stage Gossip 69 The ‘mezzanine’ is the name of the lower stage—the one immediately below the ‘boards’ proper—and it is from here that all ‘rises’, ‘sinks’ and ‘traps’ are worked.

d. North American. The lowest gallery in the auditorium of a theatre, cinema, etc.; a dress circle.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > balcony or circle

upper circle1586

balcony1718

dress circle1812

mezzanine1927

terrace1961

1927 R. W. Sexton & B. F. Betts Amer. Theatres of Today 3/2 If..the site is unusually small, or if, due to its location or to the high cost of land, the maximum number of seats are required, balconies and mezzanines are necessitated.

1933 Radio City News 1 May 1/3 It is now possible for patrons to reserve seats in the first smoking mezzanine for any performance of the week.

1957 New Yorker 29 June 22/1 I was in a movie house, fairly plush, in a sort of mezzanine, or balcony.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a 12/1 Secret Service agents with walkie-talkies paced the auditorium's mezzanine and surrounding grounds.

1990 Classic CD July 48/1 Now do it again and..before you try to impress the ladies in the mezzanine, do make sure the horns come in.

†2. A small window at the level of a mezzanine or attic; also in mezzanine window (see sense B. 1). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > window

eyethirleOE

eilthirlc1225

windowc1230

windown?a1289

fenesterc1290

fenestral1399

winnock1492

tresance1510

windore1542

lighta1586

wind-door1606

ventana1672

winder1683

glaze1699

mezzanine1731

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Mezzanine, an Entresole, or little window, less in height than breadth, serving to illuminate an Attic, &c.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. Of, relating to, or on a mezzanine; that is or forms a mezzanine; as mezzanine balcony, mezzanine floor, mezzanine level, mezzanine storey, mezzanine window, etc.

ΚΠ

1829 H. Foote Compan. to Theatres 38 Depth from upper floor to mezzanine floor 8[ft] 6[in].

1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 59/2 The domestic offices are admirably arranged in the basement and mezzanine stories.

1837 Foreign Q. Rev. 19 78 There are mezzanine windows behind the entablature.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 109/2 The remaining one hundred feet on each side of this centre, has three tiers of windows..viz. ground floor, principal, and attic or mezzanine.

1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight ii. 31 Work underneath the stage, on the umbrageous mezzonine floor.

1870 2nd Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland 11 in Parl. Papers (C. 137) XXXIX. 429 The ground-floor and mezzanine story of this part of the building are arched constructions.

1876 B. Champneys in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 237 The stowage room on the mezzanine floor.

1881 P. Fitzgerald World behind Scenes 46 Below the stage on the mezzanine floor.

1918 W. Faulkner Let. 5 Apr. in Thinking of Home (1992) 45 The lobbies and Mezzanine floors of the hotels are full of them, with their service stripes and wings and game legs and sticks.

1927 R. W. Sexton & B. F. Betts Amer. Theatres of Today 3/2 Seats lost by reducing the length of the main balcony are obtained in a mezzanine balcony.

1984 P. Breytenbach Mouroir 107 A little further along the vast mezzanine floor a young lady tried to tempt us with some souvenirs.

1991 M. Munn Hollywood Rogues 165 Teenager Eunice Pringle had bought a ticket and then found her way up to the office of Pantages on the mezzanine level.

2. Business. Of or relating to an intermediate level or stage in a financial enterprise; spec. denoting unsecured, high-yielding loans, investments, etc., that are subordinate to bank loans and secured loans but rank above equity, as mezzanine bracket, mezzanine debt, mezzanine finance, etc. Also in extended use.Originally used chiefly in connection with venture capital; later applied to other types of high-risk, low-security, usually short-term finance.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > management of assets, capital, or investments > stages in asset or investment development

mezzanine debt1976

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > invested > type of investment

perpetual1719

fundeda1770

floating1793

ethical1915

ploughed-back1930

divestiture1961

mezzanine1976

short-termist1987

1976 Forbes 1 Nov. 71/3 We're a major in municipal bond offerings; we're the only firm outside Wall Street that's in the new mezzanine bracket of corporate underwritings.

1983 Times 21 June 16/1 It [sc. the company] will principally invest in debt securities, generally on a subordinated basis, in return for interest income and a significant participation in the equity of the borrower. This is generally referred to herein as ‘mezzanine investment’.

1986 Observer 23 Nov. 37 Before..1983, potential raiders looked to venture capitalists and major insurance companies to provide mezzanine finance.

1988 Investors Chron. 26 Aug. 63/2 The fashionable phrase now for junk bonds is ‘mezzanine debt’. Undoubtedly a politer title but it means the same thing.

1991 Sight & Sound Oct. 6/3 The company plans to release a more balanced slate, with a few ‘mezzanine’ movies in the $20 to $25 million range, and some low-budget ‘quality’ films.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mezzanine
释义	mezzaninen.adj. Brit. /ˈmɛzəniːn/, /ˈmɛtsəniːn/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛznˈˌin/, /ˈˌmɛzənˈˌin/ Inflections: Plural mezzanines. Forms: 1700s mezanine, 1700s mezanini (plural), 1700s mezaninis (plural), 1700s mezzanini (plural), 1700s mezzanino's (plural), 1700s mezzonini (plural), 1700s– mezzanine, 1800s mezzaine (irregular), 1800s mezzonine, 1900s– mezzanin. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French mezzanine; Italian mezzanino. Etymology: < French mezzanine (1676 as mezanine ; 1694 in sense A. 2, 1691 in fenêtre mezzanine ) and its etymon Italian mezzanino (1550) < mezzano intermediary (1312; use as noun of mezzano (adjective) middle, middle-sized, intermediate (14th cent.) < classical Latin mediānus median adj.²) + -ino , diminutive suffix (compare -ine suffix⁴). N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (me·zănīn) /ˈmɛzəniːn/. A. n. 1. †a. A platform or flooring laid over a floor to bring its height up to some required level. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > platform to bring floor to required level mezzanine1715 1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xxii. 39 If any little Room or Closet should happen to be lower than the rest, what is wanting must be supplied by a Mezanine, or false-floor-Cieling. b. A low storey between two others in a building, usually between the ground and first floors; (also) a room, apartment, etc., on this storey. Cf. entresol n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > upper floors first floor1445 plancher1523 first storey1686 piano nobile1715 mezzaninec1720 entresol1726 attic storey1738 upstairs1781 attic1818 second floor1821 third floor1908 upper1968 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > small window fenestrellec1420 windolet1592 mezzaninec1720 fenestella1848 peeper1899 c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture II. xiv. 23 On the closets are mezanini. c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture II. iii. 5 The closets..have mezzanino's or half stories above them. 1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Entresole, sometimes call'd Mezanine, is a kind of little Story, contrived occasionally at the top of the first Story, for the conveniency of a Ward-robe, &c. 1726 G. Leoni Alcuni Disegni di Edificj: Some Designs for Buildings 1/2 The smaller stairs..ascend to the Mezzanines. 1741 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) III. 80 The princess di Forano,..took us into the mezzanini, where the family live. 1754 R. Pococke Trav. (1889) II. 140 To the saloon and hall there are as mezaninis above the windows. 1786 T. Jefferson Let. 26 Jan. in Papers (1954) IX. 222 Over 4. of these smaller rooms of the 2d floor are 4. Mezzanines or Entresoles serving as offices for the clerks. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 438 In this case, the upper story is termed a mezzanine or inter~sole. 1876 B. Champneys in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 237 A large cupboard for stowage on a mezzanine. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 666 Water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window. 1956 O. Welles Mr. Arkadin ii. iii. 110 She'd fixed herself up in Paris, living with a girl-friend who had a mezzanine in the Rue Victor Massé. 1974 News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 24 Apr. 1– b/1 Registration was held in the Mezzanine of the Wade Hampton Hotel. 1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities (1988) v. 100 On the mezzanine of the sixth floor of the Bronx County Building..was a wide entryway. †c. Theatre. A floor beneath the stage, from which the traps are worked. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > parts below stage mazarine1829 mezzanine1886 1829 [see sense B. 1]. 1847 A. Smith Nat. Hist. Ballet Girl iii. 32 The mezzonine [sic] floor..or ‘mazarine’, as it is called in the theatre..is..inhabited solely by those active spirits..who send fairies and demons up and down the traps. 1886 Stage Gossip 69 The ‘mezzanine’ is the name of the lower stage—the one immediately below the ‘boards’ proper—and it is from here that all ‘rises’, ‘sinks’ and ‘traps’ are worked. d. North American. The lowest gallery in the auditorium of a theatre, cinema, etc.; a dress circle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > balcony or circle upper circle1586 balcony1718 dress circle1812 mezzanine1927 terrace1961 1927 R. W. Sexton & B. F. Betts Amer. Theatres of Today 3/2 If..the site is unusually small, or if, due to its location or to the high cost of land, the maximum number of seats are required, balconies and mezzanines are necessitated. 1933 Radio City News 1 May 1/3 It is now possible for patrons to reserve seats in the first smoking mezzanine for any performance of the week. 1957 New Yorker 29 June 22/1 I was in a movie house, fairly plush, in a sort of mezzanine, or balcony. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a 12/1 Secret Service agents with walkie-talkies paced the auditorium's mezzanine and surrounding grounds. 1990 Classic CD July 48/1 Now do it again and..before you try to impress the ladies in the mezzanine, do make sure the horns come in. †2. A small window at the level of a mezzanine or attic; also in mezzanine window (see sense B. 1). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > window eyethirleOE eilthirlc1225 windowc1230 windown?a1289 fenesterc1290 fenestral1399 winnock1492 tresance1510 windore1542 lighta1586 wind-door1606 ventana1672 winder1683 glaze1699 mezzanine1731 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Mezzanine, an Entresole, or little window, less in height than breadth, serving to illuminate an Attic, &c. B. adj. (attributive). 1. Of, relating to, or on a mezzanine; that is or forms a mezzanine; as mezzanine balcony, mezzanine floor, mezzanine level, mezzanine storey, mezzanine window, etc. ΚΠ 1829 H. Foote Compan. to Theatres 38 Depth from upper floor to mezzanine floor 8[ft] 6[in]. 1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 59/2 The domestic offices are admirably arranged in the basement and mezzanine stories. 1837 Foreign Q. Rev. 19 78 There are mezzanine windows behind the entablature. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 109/2 The remaining one hundred feet on each side of this centre, has three tiers of windows..viz. ground floor, principal, and attic or mezzanine. 1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight ii. 31 Work underneath the stage, on the umbrageous mezzonine floor. 1870 2nd Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland 11 in Parl. Papers (C. 137) XXXIX. 429 The ground-floor and mezzanine story of this part of the building are arched constructions. 1876 B. Champneys in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 237 The stowage room on the mezzanine floor. 1881 P. Fitzgerald World behind Scenes 46 Below the stage on the mezzanine floor. 1918 W. Faulkner Let. 5 Apr. in Thinking of Home (1992) 45 The lobbies and Mezzanine floors of the hotels are full of them, with their service stripes and wings and game legs and sticks. 1927 R. W. Sexton & B. F. Betts Amer. Theatres of Today 3/2 Seats lost by reducing the length of the main balcony are obtained in a mezzanine balcony. 1984 P. Breytenbach Mouroir 107 A little further along the vast mezzanine floor a young lady tried to tempt us with some souvenirs. 1991 M. Munn Hollywood Rogues 165 Teenager Eunice Pringle had bought a ticket and then found her way up to the office of Pantages on the mezzanine level. 2. Business. Of or relating to an intermediate level or stage in a financial enterprise; spec. denoting unsecured, high-yielding loans, investments, etc., that are subordinate to bank loans and secured loans but rank above equity, as mezzanine bracket, mezzanine debt, mezzanine finance, etc. Also in extended use.Originally used chiefly in connection with venture capital; later applied to other types of high-risk, low-security, usually short-term finance. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > management of assets, capital, or investments > stages in asset or investment development mezzanine debt1976 society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > invested > type of investment perpetual1719 fundeda1770 floating1793 ethical1915 ploughed-back1930 divestiture1961 mezzanine1976 short-termist1987 1976 Forbes 1 Nov. 71/3 We're a major in municipal bond offerings; we're the only firm outside Wall Street that's in the new mezzanine bracket of corporate underwritings. 1983 Times 21 June 16/1 It [sc. the company] will principally invest in debt securities, generally on a subordinated basis, in return for interest income and a significant participation in the equity of the borrower. This is generally referred to herein as ‘mezzanine investment’. 1986 Observer 23 Nov. 37 Before..1983, potential raiders looked to venture capitalists and major insurance companies to provide mezzanine finance. 1988 Investors Chron. 26 Aug. 63/2 The fashionable phrase now for junk bonds is ‘mezzanine debt’. Undoubtedly a politer title but it means the same thing. 1991 Sight & Sound Oct. 6/3 The company plans to release a more balanced slate, with a few ‘mezzanine’ movies in the $20 to $25 million range, and some low-budget ‘quality’ films. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1715
随便看	θ32334 θ32335 θ32336 θ32337 θ32338 θ32339 θ3234 θ32340 θ32341 θ32342 θ32343 θ32344 θ32345 θ32346 θ32347 θ32348 θ32349 θ3235 θ32350 θ32351 θ32352 θ32353 θ32354 θ32355 θ32356