awning

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun

Etymology

1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn + -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bannā (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

In classic literature

Synonyms

sunshade, sunblind

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