from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A rooflike structure, often made of canvas or plastic, that serves as a shelter, as over a storefront, window, door, or deck.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A movable roof-like covering of canvas or other cloth spread over any place, or in front of a window, door, etc., as a protection from the sun's rays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
noun (Naut.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A rooflikecover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
noun nautical That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Origin unknown.]
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1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn + -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans ‘sloping roof’, from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)banno (“eaves”) (compare Provençal ambans ‘parapet’), compound of ande ‘intensive prefix’ (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) and banno ‘horn’ (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).
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Examples
The awning is dusty and worn and the two windows facing the street are obscured with neon beer signs.
Next to the van beneath the awning was a mass of machinery, man-high wheels and pulleys and a clattering steam engine, and Cicero saw that it was drawing in the upper pair of cables, and paying out the lower.
For the last, he vividly tells us, Wee did hang an awning, which is an old saile, to three or foure trees to shadow us from the Sunne; our walls were railes of wood; our seates unhewed trees till we cut plankes; our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees.
For the last, he vividly tells us, Wee did hang an awning, which is an old saile, to three or foure trees to shadow us from the Sunne; our walls were railes of wood; our seates unhewed trees till we cut plankes; our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees.
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