A mezzanine is a low floor built between two main floors of a building, often between the ground floor and the first full floor. It usually doesn’t cover the whole area, so you can look down or up from it.
From Italian ‘mezzanino,’ meaning ‘middle,’ from ‘mezzo’ (middle). It was first used for intermediate floors in grand buildings and theaters.
A mezzanine is literally a ‘middle’ floor, a kind of architectural in-between space. Modern offices and warehouses love mezzanines because they magically add space without counting as a full extra story.
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