balconette

English

Etymology

From French balconnet.

Noun

balconette (plural balconettes)

1. (architecture) A false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and resembling a balcony when the window is open.

   Synonym: Juliet balcony

2. (rare) A small balcony.
   • 1809, George John Wood, Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Perspective, page 60:

     The figure in the balconette appears of the same height, that it would do if standing upon the pavement immediately under the balconette, and its proportion is determined from that point upon the pavement.

3. Synonym of balcony bra

Derived terms

• balconette bra

Translations

narrow structure extending from a building

• Danish: fransk altan c
• Swedish: fransk balkong c