veranda

IPA: vɝˈændʌ

(Southern US) A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.

Examples of "veranda" in Sentences

Mrs Gildea had settled early to her morning's work in what she called the veranda-study of her cottage in Leichardt's Town.
They called the area the “White Highlands”; it later became notorious for the decadent lifestyle of some of its titled veranda farmers.
She cam now along the veranda from the Old Humpey with the light, rather hurried tread he remembered, talking rapidly when she joined him.
Their laughing voices charged with excitement beat against the glassed-in veranda like birds and a strange, saltish smell came from the basket.
Conjuring an image of a turn-of-the-century gentleman sitting on his veranda is a bentwood and cane armchair produced around 1900 by German manufacturer Thonet (estimate: £800-£1,200).
With its worn herringbone-patterned wooden floors, white columns connected by arched latticework, and old-fashioned ceiling fan that whirred like a large dragonfly, the veranda was the place where everyone gravitated to read or nap or daydream—and to watch the vividly hued sunsets with their backdrop of the graceful Blue Ridge.