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storey noun [ ˈstɔːri ]

• a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level.
• "a three-storey building"
Similar: floor, level, tier, flight, deck, piano nobile, mezzanine, entresol,
Origin: late Middle English: shortening of Latin historia ‘history, story’, a special use in Anglo-Latin, perhaps originally denoting a tier of painted windows or sculptures on the front of a building (representing a historical subject).


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