balconied

[Eng. balcon (y); -ied.] Having balconies. (Sometimes used in com position.) "The house was double- balconied in front."-Roger North . bǎl-cồn-ỹ, IMG:content-1005.png:[ocr errors] bal-co-nỹ, * bâl'-cồn, * bâl'-cone, * běl'-cone, s . [In Sw., Dut., & Ger. balk on ; Dan. balk on, balcon; Fr., Prov., & Sp. balcon ; Port. balcao ; Ital. bal cone; Low Lat. balco, Cognate with Ital. balco or palco = a floor, stage, scaffold, the box of a theatre, the horns of a deer, and Eng. balk a beam.] [BALK.] Ord. Lang. & Arch .: A gallery or projecting framework of wood, iron, or stone, in front of a house, generally on a level with the lower part of the windows in one or more floors. Balconies are supported on brackets, cantilevers, rails, consoles, or pillars, and are often surrounded by iron rails or by a balustrade of stone. They are very common outside the better houses in large towns. When they are sufficiently strong the inmates of the house can use them for standing or sitting in the open air; when more feebly supported, they may be employed as form-stands for plants in flower-pots. "The streets, the balconies, and the very housetops were crowded with gazers." - Macaulay list. Eng., ch. xi. ( a ) The form balcone occurs in Howell's Letters (dated 1650.) ( Hall i well : Contrib. to Lexic.) It is found also in Holyday's Juvenal (1618). This is probably the earliest instance. (b) In 1836, Smart noted that the change of accent from the second syllable of the word to the first had taken place within the previous twenty years. * bâld (1), a . [BOLD.]