veranda

plural verandas · alternative verandah · alternative dated viranda · alternative dated virandah · alternative obsolete virando

1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.First known use 18th c.

   Boulte ate his breakfast, advised her to see her Arab pony fed in the veranda, and went out.

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 66

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   No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46

   Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.

   1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind