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noun
The floor of a building where the principal bedrooms and main reception rooms are found, very often on the first or second floor in older buildings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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Synonyms: bel étage
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Italian piano nobile (“noble floor”).
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