awning
noun
a rooflike shelter of canvas or other material extending over a doorway, from the top of a window, over a deck, etc., in order to provide protection, as from the sun.
awninged
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a word derived from
awning.
Example Sentences
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The awninged thrift shop not only sells inexpensive goods but provides free emergency food.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their rich, paneled offices off an awninged terrace overlooking the Hudson in downtown Manhattan, officials of the Dutch diamond firm of J. K. Smit & Sons were solemn last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Romance had crowded commerce from the boulevards; poets wrote their verses at the marble-topped tables along the awninged pavements; the lesser streets were lovers’ lanes.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Reginald Wright Kauffman
Wide piazzas flanked the house on every side, screened and awninged from the sun and wind and rain.
From In Her Own Right by Clarence F. Underwood
Each day, in this delightful weather, Wada, under Miss West’s instructions, brings him up in his box and places him out of the wind on the awninged poop.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
