awning (redirected from Retractable awning)

awn·ing  (ônng)

n.

A rooflike structure, often made of canvas or plastic, that serves as a shelter, as over a storefront, window, door, or deck.

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[Origin unknown.]

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awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ]

n

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a roof of canvas or other material supported by a frame to provide protection from the weather, esp one placed over a doorway or part of a deck of a ship

[of uncertain origin]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

awning - a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun sunblind, sunshade canopy - a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather

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awning

noun canopy, tester, covering, shade, sunshade, baldachin They leapt from a first-floor window on to a shop awning.

Translations

awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ] N → toldo m

awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ] n [tent] → auvent m; [shop] → store m; [hotel] → marquise f (de toile)

awning

n (on window, of shop) → Markise f; (on boat) → Sonnensegel nt; (of wagon) → Plane f; (= caravan awning) → Vordach nt

awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ] n (of shop, hotel) → tenda, tendone m; (of tent) → veranda