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Example sentences for: balcony
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In the early evening of Oct. 16, 1978, the newly elected Pope John Paul II appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and told the crowd that he had accepted election even though "I was afraid in receiving the nomination."
Take Kenneth Branagh's four-hour film version of Hamlet . Having punctured Laertes and launched him over a balcony, Hamlet, in the climactic scene, impales Claudius with a flying sword, brains him with a swinging chandelier, and force-feeds him poison.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives a similar etymology, stating that balcony is ultimately of Gmc origin.
Large breasts are referred to as balkon balcony, or bombi bombs, and a large bottom, curiously, as a diferenzial differential (in a car).
The Tolkovyi Slovar' states that the Russian word for balcony (balkon) is borrowed from Italian, which took it from Persian, not the Germanic languages.