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awning

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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.
[Origin unknown.]
awning
Noun
a canvas roof supported by a frame to give protection against the weather [origin unknown]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.awningawning - 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
Translations
awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ] n [of shop] → toldo; [of window etc] → marquesina
awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ] n [of tent] → auvent m [of shop]; store m [of hotel etc]; marquise f (de toile)
awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ] n (of tent, caravan) → Vordach nt;
(of shop etc) → Markise f
awning [ˈɔːnɪŋ] n [of tent] → veranda; [of shop, hotel etc] → tenda


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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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