areaway

plural areaways

1. CanadaUSAn outdoor passage offering access to a basement.

   At the basement door, which as in all these houses led out into the areaway below the front stoop, Krupong said, “Is there a toilet down here?”

   1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 11, in The New Yorkers, Boston: Little, Brown, page 307

   1 more example

   “I have three rooms here, and the back one opens into a kind of areaway from which I get into an abandoned storeroom, or I guess it’s an attic. […]”

   1922, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in The Day of the Beast, New York: Harper, page 116