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Basement

noun

The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage. Synonym: cellar.

The ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture.

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"Basement" Quotes from Famous Books

... Street backed up against the 32d Street shaft site, and the basement was used as a storeroom for supplies ...

— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • James H. Brace and Francis Mason

... this town are. They're watching this house for a desperado who assaulted some one outside. I met a sergeant on our steps. Says he doesn't think the man's here, but there's just a chance he slipped into the basement. It's absurd." ...

— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine

... So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, Houseless ...

— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe

... MacLachan, the tailor, having started one of his disastrous drunks within the precincts of his Home of Fashion, was on his way to finish it in the gutter via the zigzag route from corner saloon to corner saloon, when the Twelve Apostles clock in the basement window lifted up its voice and (presumably through the influence of Peter) thrice denied the hour, which was actually a quarter before midnight. "Losh!" said MacLachan, who invariably reacted in tongue to the stimulus of Scotch whiskey, "they'll a' be closed. Hame an' to bed ...

— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... of them once—a very good little "Manchester Donkey Pump," but as noisy as they make 'em—and it became a question whether she should be discarded for an injector; she was bolted to a wall in the basement of a block of offices and could be heard throughout the building, and my employer told me that he would willingly give a 5l. note to anyone who would stop the noise. The donkey was vertical; I took off both valve covers and drilled a 3/8-inch hole in each projection from the cover ...

— The Stoker's Catechism • W. J. Connor

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