loggia
(noun) a roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level
Source: WordNet® 3.1
loggia (plural loggias or logge or loggie)
(architecture) A roofed, open gallery, usually on an upper level.
• Gaglio
Source: Wiktionary
Log"gia, n. Etym: [It. See Lodge.] (Arch.)
Definition: A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.