loggia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a roofed gallery or corridor that is open to the air on one or more sides, often along an upper story of a building

   Guests crossed the loggia to reach the rooms overlooking the courtyard.

Borrowed from Italian loggia, 'covered gallery or lodge,' through Old French loge and Medieval Latin laubia, ultimately from a Frankish word for a shelter of leaves. Lobby and lodge are related doublets.

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