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mezzanine

mez.za.nine \'mez-*n-.e-n, .mez-*n-'\ n [F, fr. It mezzanino, fr. mezzano 
   middle, fr. L medianus midd]le, median 1: a low-ceilinged story between two 
   main stories of a building; esp  : an intermediate story that projects in 
   the form of a balcony 2a: the lowest balcony in a theater  2b: the first 
   few rows of such a balcony