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cellarPortion of a building beneath ground level, used for utilitarian and storage purposes. It is often called a basement, especially when constructed as part of a foundation. A cellar used for food storage (e.g., a root cellar) may be beneath a house or located outdoors, partly underground, with the upper part mounded over with earth to maintain fairly constant temperature and humidity; the entire enclosure may be concrete, or the floor may be of dirt and the ceiling of timber. cellar 1. an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storage 2. a place where wine is stored 3. a stock of bottled wines How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Their brief ascendance can be worth examining if it illustrates their era or those around them, or, if you're going to go whole hog on the biopic thing, if it digs deep in the root cellar of personal psychology. He too has experienced loss and now spends his days painting colorful murals of horses in a root cellar. In the root cellar beneath the kitchen potatoes sprout dead white-- because there's no light. |
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