floor-through
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of floor-through
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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Inside, the airy floor-through space has public gathering and exhibition areas, with the architect Nandini Bagchee’s versatile benches-cum-cubby-spaces that can be rolled to the street for art-making pop-ups and sidewalk conversations.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022
Three oval openings perforate one of the blocks, while another has five pairs of floor-through windows that turn it into a skyscraper writ small.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2018
By the time my parents bundled their baby into a taxi for a ride across the Brooklyn Bridge to a second-story floor-through in Carroll Gardens, I was Joel Harold Rosen.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2016
It was a floor-through - the whole floor of a building - on Twelfth Street just off Third Avenue for a mere $300 a month.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2014
The third-floor loft is a 4,000-square-foot floor-through, and the second floor is currently split into two units.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2013
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