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half story
noun
, Architecture.
- a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of half story1
First recorded in 1610–20
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Example Sentences
The main building consisted of two ground-floor rooms, each with a front door and a half-story room above.
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After breakfast we were conducted to the second half-story, which was one unfinished room.
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It is a plain, substantial two-and-a-half story brick house of thirteen rooms, with modern conveniences, and belongs to Miss Mary.
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The first story was rough stone, the half-story of shingles, that had once been painted red.
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Buzz turned toward the inside wooden stairway that led to the half-story above.
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