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awn·ing
(ô′nĭng)n.
A rooflike structure, often made of canvas or plastic, that serves as a shelter, as over a storefront, window, door, or deck.
[Origin unknown.]
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awning
(ˈɔːnɪŋ)n
(Architecture) a roof of canvas or other material supported by a frame to provide protection from the weather, esp one placed over a doorway or part of a deck of a ship
[C17: of uncertain origin]
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awn•ing
(ˈɔ nɪŋ)n.
a rooflike shelter of canvas or other material extending over a doorway, window, deck, etc., to provide protection from the sun or rain.
[1615–25; orig. uncertain]
awn′inged, adj.
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Noun | 1. | awning - a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun canopy - a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather |
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awning
noun canopy, tester, covering, shade, sunshade, baldachin They leapt from a first-floor window on to a shop awning.
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awning
n (on window, of shop) → Markise f; (on boat) → Sonnensegel nt; (of wagon) → Plane f; (= caravan awning) → Vordach nt
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