story

architecture
Also known as: storey

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use in building construction

  • construction of apartment buildings
    In construction: Building services

    …small and large rooms and multistory buildings as well. Houses, particularly large ones, were broken up into smaller, more private spaces each heated by its own fireplace, a change that decisively altered the communal lifestyle of early medieval times.

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