awning

awn·ing (ô

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

[Origin unknown.]

awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ]

(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]

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Noun

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

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

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awning deck
Awninged
blind
canopy
crowfoot
deck
hurricane deck
hurricane roof
passenger ship
poke out
promenade deck
reach out
sag
screen
shelter
sun
sunblind
sunshade
Tentory

Boggs rode up before the biggest store in town, and bent his head down so he could see under the curtain of the awning and yells:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

So it is that I can see her and hear her now on a hundred separate occasions beneath the awning beneath the stars on deck below at noon or night but plainest of all in the evening of the day we signalled the Island of Ascension, at the close of that last concert on the quarter-deck.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context

For five minutes the two stood in the shelter of the store awning and talked.

Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context

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