An Italian term for a balcony; a projecting platform with a railing on the exterior of a building.
From Italian 'balcone,' the singular masculine form in Italian. This is the original language source that eventually led to the English 'balcony' through French borrowing.
Italian is the original source for most architectural vocabulary in English because Renaissance Italy created the styles we still use—from 'balcone' to 'piazza' to 'palazzo'!
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