rez-de-chaussée
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We inhabit the first floor, along with the rez-de-chaussée, which has been turned into domestic offices suitable for the needs of the family.
From A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Besides the rez-de-chaussée, which is but little above the ground, there are two good stories all round the building, and even more in the towers.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
In such case to go directly to his apartment, that handy little rez-de-chaussée near the Trocadéro, was obviously inadvisable.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph
Here and there some rez-de-chaussée aglow showed the usual gossippers of the concierges.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore
Her house was, like Madame du Clozel's, a single rez-de-chaussée surmounted by a mansard....
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
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