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Definition of "entresol" [en•tre•sol]

  • The floor just above the ground floor of a building; a mezzanine. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "entresol" in a sentence
  • "(I should have prefaced this anecdote by saying, for the benefit of those readers who have never been in Paris, that the entresol is a low story just over the shops, and that the Rue de Rivoli is one of the noisiest streets in the city.) -- "But Feuillet has leased the third and fourth floors: why don't you receive up there?" responded the visitor."
  • "A splendid double staircase leads to the ground floor as high as an 'entresol'."
  • "In my confusion I imagined, a moment before the assailants entered the Queen's apartments, that my sister was not among the group of women collected there; and I went up into an 'entresol', where I supposed she had taken refuge, to induce her to come down, fancying it safer that we should not be separated."